John R.W. Stott was a well-known evangelist and apologist in the 1950s, undertaking various university missions in England while ministering at All Souls Langham Place, first as a curate (1945– 1950) and then as rector from 1950. Stott’s first visit to Australia was in 1958, the same year that Basic Christianity and Your Confirmation were published. These were extremely influential books in Australia, the first for Evangelicals of all denominations and the second for Anglican young people in particular as they prepared for their Confirmation. The latter was the standard text for a generation of confirmees.