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In 1970, a three-year-old boy named Glen Cork fell into a campfire at a family gathering in rural Kentucky. Third-degree burns covered forty percent of...
In our increasingly complex world, where the call for Social Justice resonates loudly, we find ourselves at a crossroads—a place not dissimilar from the challenges faced by the biblical characters who walked before us. Just like Moses stood before Pharaoh,...
In the ever-changing landscape of our digital age, the challenge of Digital Discipleship can often feel overwhelming, much like the Israelites navigating the wilderness. Imagine a young woman named Sarah, who recently moved to a bustling city. Alone in her...
In 2010, Haitian worship leader Dieumème Noelliste lost everything in the Port-au-Prince earthquake — his home, his church building, three members of his congregation. For...
In our world today, the conversation about women in church leadership often stirs deep emotions and challenges long-held beliefs. Let me share with you the inspiring journey of Sarah, a spirited young woman who felt an undeniable call to ministry....
When Margaret Chen's husband David deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, he left a handwritten letter tucked inside her nightstand drawer. "Read this when you're afraid,"...
In our modern world, the tension between Science and Faith often feels like a churning sea, threatening to overwhelm those of us who hold a progressive Christian faith. We stand at the helm of this ship, navigating through waves of...
In 2014, the Showalter family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received the call every parent dreads. Their seventeen-year-old son Marcus had disappeared — walked out after an...
In 2016, Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his decades of research on autophagy — a process whose Greek...
There’s a story from history that beautifully illustrates the essence of self-control and love in action. In the early 20th century, during the height of the suffragette movement, a woman named Emmeline Pankhurst stood boldly for her beliefs. She faced...
In the late 1940s, Charles Templeton was the most electrifying young evangelist in North America. He preached to stadiums of thousands, served as vice president...
In 2011, a massive EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. Bethany Stover clutched her newborn son in a hallway closet...
Every June in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, thousands of visitors gather in Elkmont to witness something science still struggles to fully explain. Photinus...
In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince*, a lonely fox teaches the young prince what it means to form a real bond — what the...
In 2019, a young National Guard sergeant named Marcus Rivera drove through the night after spending three grueling days helping evacuate families during Hurricane Dorian...
In 2019, a middle school in Jacksonville, Florida made national news — not for test scores or athletics, but for a cafeteria. A group of...
In the coal town of Bradshaw, West Virginia, Dr. Russell Meade opened a dental clinic in 2014 — the same year the last mine shut...
In January 2023, photographer Shang Yang traveled to Tromsø, Norway, hoping to capture the Northern Lights. He had seen photographs, watched documentaries, studied the science...
In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and locked inside Tegel Military Prison in Berlin. His cell was small, the blanket filthy,...
On a cold November evening in 2019, thirteen-year-old Marcus slipped out of his grandmother's house in Memphis and didn't come back. He'd broken her antique...
In December 1874, a ferocious windstorm tore through the Sierra Nevada with such force that the ancient trees bent like grass. Most people ran for...
In June 1940, France had fallen. The British Expeditionary Force had barely escaped Dunkirk, leaving behind nearly all their equipment. Nazi bombers were already probing...
In 2019, a thirteen-year-old girl named Daysha stood in a Michigan courtroom wearing a white dress her foster mother had bought her the day before....
In 1964, two Bell Labs engineers in Holmdel, New Jersey — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — couldn't figure out why their radio antenna kept...