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There was a time I witnessed a remarkable display of mercy at a local soup kitchen. A young man, disheveled and weary, shuffled in. His eyes told stories of pain and hardship. As he approached the serving line, he hesitated,...
In 1714, when Queen Anne of England died without a surviving heir, Parliament faced a crisis. Yet decades earlier, the Act of Settlement had established...
In the vibrant heart of our world today, where the specter of climate change looms large, I’m reminded of a story from a small coastal town, where the sea meets the shore, echoing the hopes and fears of its people....
Every Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, a retired chef named Margaret Huang sets up a long folding table on Lavaca Street, covered with a white...
In 1527, the plague swept through Wittenberg. Martin Luther refused to flee. Friends begged him to leave, but he stayed to minister to the sick...
In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland. Corrie ten Boom and her family had been sheltering Jewish refugees for...
In 2019, a young woman named Clara Reyes left her family's small apartment in San Antonio after a bitter argument with her mother. She was...
In 1636, Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford was ripped from his beloved congregation in Anwoth and banished to Aberdeen by church authorities who despised his preaching....
In the heart of our church community, we often find ourselves carrying invisible burdens—struggles with anxiety, depression, and trauma that linger beneath the surface, hidden behind smiles and Sunday bests. Picture Marcus, our worship leader, standing in front of the...
In the hill towns of central Italy, Roman aqueducts still stand after two thousand years. Engineers in Segovia, Spain, walk beneath arches built before the...
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of displaced families across Louisiana, a small congregation in Shreveport called Greater St. Mary Baptist Church faced a...
In the 1950s, a Soviet orthopedic surgeon named Gavriil Ilizarov made a remarkable discovery in Siberia: shattered bones could be regrown. His device — a...
A few years ago, I met a man named David at a local community center. David had recently lost his job and was struggling to make ends meet. When I first spoke to him, I noticed the heaviness in his...
Imagine a once-abandoned field, overgrown with thorns and brambles, where hope seemed lost. But one day, a gardener stepped onto the land, armed with a vision. With each careful turn of the soil, he unearthed the remnants of what could...
In the lightless depths of the ocean, where sunlight never penetrates and pressure would crush an unprotected human being, something remarkable happens: most creatures glow....
As we reflect on our calling as progressive Christians in today’s complex world, I’m reminded of an inspiring story from the civil rights movement. It’s the tale of a small church in Montgomery, Alabama, where a group of believers gathered...
In 1861, George Müller stood before three hundred orphan children seated at long wooden tables in his Bristol, England orphanage on Ashley Down. The plates...
On a bitter December day in 1944, Corrie ten Boom walked out of Ravensbrück concentration camp clutching a discharge paper stamped with a clerical error....
In 2014, volunteers restoring the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida discovered something remarkable behind a crumbling wall — a leather-bound logbook dating back to 1874....
For thirty years, Monica of Tagaste wept and prayed for her wayward son. Augustine was brilliant, restless, and determined to live on his own terms....
On any coral reef from the Red Sea to the shallow waters off Papua New Guinea, the sea anemone is a quiet killer. Its tentacles...
In 2014, a transmission shop owner named Cathy Heying opened a garage in a rough stretch of South Minneapolis. But Cathy's shop, the Lift Garage,...
Every cell in your body is under constant attack. Ultraviolet light, free radicals, and the simple chemistry of living damage your DNA approximately 10,000 times...
In the summer of 2019, a cattle rancher named Earl Whittaker watched a supercell thunderstorm roll across the Texas Panhandle toward his property outside Dalhart....