Alan Cairns (clergyman)

Alan G. Cairns (August 12, 1940 – November 5, 2020) was a Northern Irish pastor, author, and radio Bible teacher.

A native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, he joined the nascent Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster as a teenager.

After being called to its ministry, he became a close associate of Ulster preacher-politician Ian Paisley.

In 1973 he began a radio ministry, "Let the Bible Speak," which in 2020 was heard on stations in the UK, the Irish Republic, North America, India, Africa, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan.

[5] Cairns adapted and published many of his sermon series as books and wrote a Dictionary of Theological Terms from a Reformed perspective.