WAR CRYWnRLD TV presenter makes faith a life issue

‘MY job is not to talk about being a Christian – my job is to live it,’ TV presenter Dan Walker revealed in an interview with Church Times He told reporter Susan Gray that he is not ashamed of his faith and it is a big part of who he is. He said that he had ‘what people refer to as a conversion experience’ aged 12, when he heard somebody preaching and was aware of his need of a saviour.

Having turned down the request to write an autobiography, Dan has written a book about people ‘who’ve been to some of the darkest places, and are permanently trying to find the light at the end of a long tunnel’.

The book, Standing on the Shoulders, features the stories of people such as Mina Smallman, a former archdeacon who forgave her daughters’ killer, three fathers bereaved by the suicides of their daughters, and the convicted murderer Steven Gallant, who saved lives during a terrorist attack.

Dan said: ‘There are obvious things that resonate with me as a Christian: forgiveness, redemption, and sacrifice. There is a humility that flows through every chapter, which hits some of the tones the Christian story hits.’