By Miska Wilhelmsson
Article
December 2016
Finland
From blasphemer to preacher
I was not brought up in a Christian home, although my mum and dad were in certain ways quite religious and members of the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland, where I was baptised as a baby. My mum and dad divorced when I was about seven years old, leaving me and my younger brother…
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By Miska Wilhelmsson
Article
October 2016
Finland
The progress of Christianity in Finland
As a Protestant Christian from Finland, I trace my spiritual heritage back to the Finnish Reformation, when the country turned from Roman Catholicism to Protestant Lutheranism. Although not a Lutheran myself, I am thankful for how God used this period to bless my home country with the Word of God in the Finnish language,…
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By Miska Wilhelmsson
Article
October 2016
Finland
Finishing the Finnish Reformation
Being an international seminary student in America, and studying the Protestant Reformation in Germany, as well as more recent church history in England and America, made me realise how little I know about the Reformation in my own country of Finland. This led me on a quest to study my own Reformation heritage and…
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