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In our complex world, the struggles surrounding the interpretation of Scripture, especially in matters of intimacy and sexuality, can feel overwhelming. Yet, like the prophets of old, we find ourselves at a crossroads, tasked with deciphering ancient truths for contemporary...
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In the summer of 1944, American prisoners of war at Cabanatuan camp in the Philippines were starving, sick, and dying by the dozens. Japanese guards...
Every parent knows the moment. For David Meyers, it happened at the Boone County Fair on a humid July evening in 2019. His four-year-old daughter,...
In April 1942, Corporal Jacob DeShazer climbed into a B-25 bomber for the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Shot down and captured, he spent forty months...
In January 2019, David Hernandez got the call at eleven p.m. His daughter Sofia, a first-year teacher in Anchorage, had been rushed into emergency surgery....
In competitive freediving, athletes descend hundreds of feet into the ocean on a single breath — no tanks, no second chances. At the point of...
In 1982, a pastor named Václav Malý stood before a secret congregation in a Prague basement. Czechoslovakia had been under Communist rule for over thirty...
When Marcus Webb's seventeen-year-old daughter didn't come home from the Friday night football game, he didn't wait until morning. He called her phone — no...
George Washington Carver used to rise before dawn at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, walking through the fields with a small collection jar, praying a simple...
On the night of September 14, 2003, Hurricane Isabel tore through the Virginia coastline. Eight-year-old Maya Hendricks huddled with her mother in their darkened living...
Marie Curie spent years in a cramped Paris laboratory, hunched over vials of pitchblende, isolating the element she would name radium. She worked so closely...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor, convinced he needed to leave Parliament and enter the...
In the bustling streets of our cities, where voices often clash with dissonance, there exists a quiet strength—a spirit of Nonviolent Resistance that echoes the same courage we find in the lives of biblical heroes. Imagine a community gathered, not...
On April 8, 2024, thousands gathered in Carbondale, Illinois, to witness a total solar eclipse. Scientists had spent years preparing. Photographers had calibrated their equipment....
On March 21, 1748, a violent storm nearly swallowed the merchant ship Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-three-year-old slave trader hardened by...
In January 1736, a violent storm battered the ship carrying John Wesley to the Georgia colony. While English passengers screamed in terror, a group of...
In 2019, a young woman named Sarah from Owasso, Oklahoma — population 36,000 — married into one of Denmark's oldest noble families. She had grown...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...
The 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Derek Redmond of Great Britain had trained his entire life for one moment — the 400-meter semifinal. Years of surgeries and...
A few years ago, I attended a local science fair where students showcased their projects. One exhibit caught my attention: a young girl had built a miniature ecosystem inside a glass jar. She had carefully arranged soil, plants, and even...
For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope sent back images that reshaped how we understood the cosmos — smudges of light resolved into galaxies, faint signals...
In 1924, Eric Liddell arrived in Paris as Britain's fastest sprinter, heavily favored to win gold in the 100 meters. Then the schedule was posted....
Derek Redmond had trained for years for this moment. As the gun fired at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the British sprinter shot out of the...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stood at the center of an Olympic controversy in Paris. He had withdrawn from his best event, the 100...