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In January 2010, Stephanie Decker of Henryville, Indiana, heard the freight-train roar every Midwesterner dreads. She threw herself over her two children in the basement...
A few years ago, I met a woman named Sarah who was facing a crossroads in her life. She had just lost her job and was unsure about what to do next. As despair began to cloud her thoughts, she...
On a warm February morning in 2024, twelve-year-old Marcus Rivera stood with his family three miles from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral, watching a...
Every Sunday morning for forty-three years, Margaret Chen arrived at Grace Community Church in Asheville, North Carolina, precisely twenty minutes before the service. She'd sit...
On a Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them was...
In the heart of a community devastated by gun violence, Pastor Maria found herself standing at the crossroads of despair and hope. Just weeks after a tragic school shooting claimed innocent lives, she gathered her congregation, their faces etched with...
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee walked into the parlor of Wilmer McLean's farmhouse at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The Civil War had...
A few years ago, I visited a nursing home to deliver a message of hope to those who often felt forgotten. As I walked through the halls, I met a woman named Margaret. Her eyes sparkled with a hint of...
In 2019, a family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, nearly lost everything — not to a fire, but to what came before one. An electrical inspector...
In 2015, the American Bible Society completed a translation of Scripture into Bibleless languages for a small community of Kimyal people in Papua, Indonesia. When...
In 2013, researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden discovered something remarkable. When members of a choir sang together, their heart rates synchronized. Beat...
In the 2014 World Cup, Tim Howard stood in goal for the United States against Belgium. No major European club had wanted him as a...
A few years back, I met a young woman named Sarah who was navigating a particularly tumultuous season in her life. She had just lost her job unexpectedly, and the weight of uncertainty loomed over her like a heavy cloud....
Last summer, I had the joy of witnessing a remarkable transformation in a young man named David. He had been wrestling with feelings of shame and unworthiness after making some poor choices in his life, choices that had cost him...
Martin Okafor had been building a cedar hope chest for his daughter Amara's sixteenth birthday — and he'd finally agreed to let her help sand...
Margaret Chen sang to her husband David every night of his final three months. Not hymns — though she knew hundreds — but the same...
When Marcus and Elena Torres brought their twin daughters home from Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Marcus couldn't stop humming. For forty-seven days in the...
Fourteen-year-old Marcus thought his grandfather's ham radio setup was just a relic — dusty dials and tangled cables filling half the garage in Topeka, Kansas....
In 1744, John Thornton was born into modest English merchant life, but through shrewd trade in Baltic goods, he amassed one of the largest fortunes...
In our rapidly changing world, where the dialogues between science and faith often feel like a tug-of-war, we find ourselves in a place not unlike the biblical figures who grappled with their own understandings of truth. Think of Noah, standing...
There’s a remarkable story about a group of scientists who embarked on a mission to explore the depths of the ocean. They developed a submersible capable of reaching the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of our planet. As they descended...
In 2015, biochemist Tomas Lindahl received the Nobel Prize for a discovery that should have been discouraging: human DNA is shockingly unstable. Every single day,...
In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, after every battle and valley and temptation, Christian arrives at the final obstacle before the Celestial City — a...
There once lived a woman named Deborah, not unlike the biblical figure we admire for her courage and wisdom. Deborah had spent years feeling lost in a fog of disappointment and uncertainty. Life had dealt her a series of hard...