Malcolm muggeridge biography
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Profiles in Faith: Malcolm Muggeridge
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was born in , named by his father Henry after Thomas Carlyle. A lover of words, Malcolm was to become one of the great literary figures of British public life in the twentieth century. After the death of C.S. Lewis in , many came to regard Muggeridge as Lewis’ successor as a Christian popular apologist. Although he grew up in an atheistic environment, Malcolm admitted to me that he had always believed in God, vague though his religious convictions remained for a long time in his life. One can trace this search for God in reading his diary1 and other of his works from the s.
Malcolm’s eldest son, Leonard (born in ), had become an evangelical as a member of the Plymouth Brethren while in the British army in Austria, during the early s. I had gotten to know Leonard when he attended an annual summer biblical conference I had helped to organize in Oxford. Through him I was in
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Malcolm Muggeridge
British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (–)
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March – 14 November )[1] was a British journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). Malcolm's brother Eric was one of the founders of Plan International. In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the s, and the experience turned him into an anti-communist.
During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris. In the aftermath of the war, he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use.
Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life, which were published in
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Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life
Ian Hunter’s “Malcolm Muggeridge,” is a revelation. To view the events of the gods century. through Muggeridge’s journalistic eye, fryst vatten to experience reality from the perspective of one of God’s gargoyles.
In his prime, Muggeridge was a force of nature. After graduating from Cambridge-with a triple in the physical sciences- he taught English literature in India and Egypt. Muggeridge was a considerable character. He possessed unparalleled literary talents. He knew everyone and traveled everywhere: teaching English lit