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In 2018, a young woman named Priya Sharma walked into a community dinner at a church in Leicester, England. She wasn't a member. She wasn't...
In 2019, a high school basketball coach in Memphis named Penny Hardaway noticed that Marcus, a quiet sophomore who had been showing up faithfully to...
In downtown Oklahoma City, an American Elm stands in the northwest corner of the National Memorial. Before April 19, 1995, nobody paid it much attention...
In our current age, where the sound of church bells has been replaced by the ping of notifications, the landscape of faith has transformed dramatically. Online Church & Community has become both our refuge and our challenge, inviting us to...
After a bone marrow transplant, something remarkable happens. The recipient's blood cells gradually die off, replaced entirely by cells produced from the donor's marrow. Within...
John Newton spent his early years running hard in the wrong direction. By his twenties, he had worked aboard slave ships off the coast of...
In our fast-paced, digital age, many of us find ourselves entangled in the web of technology, grappling with the fine line between connectivity and distraction. Picture this: a young mother, Sarah, cradling her baby in one arm while scrolling through...
In 2009, a high school counselor in Baltimore told Howard Schultz's story to a room of discouraged seniors. Schultz grew up in the Bayview Housing...
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall stood before Harvard's graduating class and made a quiet, extraordinary promise. Europe lay in ruins —...
For three years, Grace Community Church in northeast Portland held monthly all-night prayer vigils. They fasted. They wept over the state of their city. They...
For twelve years, Marco Chen knew his grandfather only in pieces. A faded photograph on the mantel. His mother's stories about a man who survived...
In 2014, a photograph circulated online of a homeless man named Patrick Hardison from Senatobia, Mississippi. Burns had destroyed his face years earlier while he...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there comes a moment near the end of the long journey to Mordor when Frodo collapses. The...
In March of 2016, hikers arrived at Death Valley expecting the usual — cracked earth, pale rock, the silence of a landscape that seems to...
In 1900, sociologist A.E. Winship published a remarkable study tracing the descendants of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth-century pastor from Northampton, Massachusetts. What he found read...
In 2019, a high school cross-country coach in rural Oregon named Dave Turnbow was loading his team onto the bus after a meet in Bend...
There once was a young gardener named Samuel, who inherited a small plot of land from his grandfather. The soil was rich and teeming with potential, but it was also overrun with weeds. Samuel often felt overwhelmed, unsure of where...
In 2018, a family in Shelbyville, Tennessee spent three weeks suffering from headaches, fatigue, and confusion before a visiting relative walked into their home and...
In rural Appalachia, old hand-pumped wells still dot the hillsides. Anyone who has used one knows the rule: before you can draw water out, you...
In a humble laboratory on a rainy afternoon, a scientist stood before a bubbling array of test tubes, each filled with vibrant, swirling liquids. He was on the brink of discovery, yet with each attempt, the results were not what...
When Marcus Chen brought his newborn daughter home from the hospital in Portland, every cry sounded identical — a piercing, urgent alarm that sent him...
Margaret Thornton sat in her kitchen on Elm Street in Decatur, Illinois, staring at a single twenty-dollar bill. It was January 1983. The plant had...
In the bustling heart of Silicon Valley, there’s a story that resonates deeply with our faith journey today. A young woman named Mia, a software engineer with a passion for creating apps, designed a social networking platform intended to connect...
When Marcus Rivera got the call from his oncologist in March 2023, the first thing he did was phone his mother. Not because she could...