"The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust."
Psalm 18 v 2
"Running the Race" — a new biography of Eric Liddell, Olympic champion and Missionary
Author: John W Keddie
Published by Evangelical Press
Retail Price: £8.95
(Available from Day One Publications £7.50–post free!)
There are very few biographies which bring together the sporting and the Christian dimensions. But that is the case with Eric Liddell, and that at least in part, must account for the fascination there is for his life. He achieved, posthumously, a celebrity status through being depicted in an award-winning movie—Chariots of Fire (1981)—in which his stand for keeping Sunday as the Lord’s Day is so powerfully depicted.
‘I ended the book breathless at his amazing achievements as a sportsman and in awe of his witness to the Saviour amongst his sporting contemporaries. Wonderful!’
—Graham Daniels, General Director of Christians in Sport