What is the main conflict in Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History by Richard M. Hannula?

Richard Hannula's Trial and Triumph, Stories from Church History is a collection of short stories about the lives of more than forty-six figures important to the history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to until 1999, when the book was published. Hannula describes his book as a "family history" for Christians and a reminder to Christians of the Christian heroes that suffered for the Christian faith. Hannula maintains that the book was written not to exalt the people he describes but "the Lord who made them great." The stories in the book are quite short and so are inevitably stylized summaries that describe peoples from many distinct times and places. But Hannula maintains that he has attempted to maintain historical accuracy and that the quotations in the book were drawn from the subjects' writings and speeches themselves. Hannula wrote the book for his children but he also maintains that the book should be a source of inspiration for adult Christians as well.