Ian M. Randall is a Research Associate, the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre, Amsterdam. He is a Baptist minister and has been a hospital chaplain. He has written numerous books, including Church Community Is a Gift of the Holy Spirit, Rhythms of Revival: The Spiritual Awakening of 1857-1863, and Communities of Conviction: Baptist Beginnings in Europe, as well as many articles.