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Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Web publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Cathedral. Some are familiar faces. Others are surprising friends. But all, through their romantic relationships, problems, prayers, and wishes, distinctively illuminate our distributed experience. The writer of The Pilgrim's Improvement, one of the very most influential catalogs in English literature, got little formal education. Blessed in 1628, the son of a tinker, John Bunyan was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. He was permitted to go to college for a couple of years and purchase a few catalogs, but his apprenticeship in the family business required precedence. Bunyan experienced his first sorrow in adolescence, when both his mother and sister died. It wasn't his last. Revolutions and wars were throughout him, and he was jailed twice for preaching the Gospel. Yet amidst repeated imprisonments, civil war, and violent persecution, Bunyan crafted The Pilgrim's Improvement, a testament unlike every other to the triumph of the human heart. His simple cadences altered the language, and his memorable character types became familiar to millions. Bunyan became a general population amount, a captivating speaker, and most importantly, a guy known for his unrelenting rely upon God.