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In our bustling world of economic disparity, the call to economic justice can feel like a daunting wave crashing against the shore of our faith. Yet, our journey mirrors those biblical figures who faced their own storms. Imagine for a...
Marcus Webb had every reason to expect the axe. He'd skipped two preseason practices, talked back to an assistant coach, and his attitude had poisoned...
In a bustling city, there lived a woman named Sarah, a single mother working two jobs to provide for her young daughter, Lily. Life was a constant juggling act of deadlines and decisions, and the demands often felt overwhelming. One...
In 2019, a young tenant farmer outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania named Marcus Behr wanted to impress the landowner who had generously leased him four hundred acres...
In 2019, Marcus and Diana Chen were settled. He managed a thriving dental practice in suburban Atlanta. She ran the children's ministry at their church...
In 2018, a man named Ron Derry sat in a hospital waiting room in Cleveland, preparing to give away his kidney. The recipient was his...
When the earthquake struck southern Turkey in February 2023, thousands found themselves trapped beneath collapsed apartment buildings. In the pitch darkness under tons of concrete,...
In 1798, at the age of sixty-six, Franz Joseph Haydn began composing what many consider his greatest work — *The Creation*. The oratorio opens with...
In 2019, a church in Cincinnati held a forty-day prayer and fasting campaign. They filled the sanctuary three nights a week, sang until their voices...
Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a coal mining town so small it barely appeared on maps. His father died when Bill...
Margaret Haines had farmed winter wheat outside Dodge City, Kansas, for thirty-seven years, but the June supercell of 2019 was something else entirely. She stood...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann — stood on a dock in Copenhagen, about to board a...
For twelve years, Grace Community Church in Durham, North Carolina, held an annual "Justice Sunday" every January. They sang spirituals, read from the prophets, and...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, the hobbits come home from war to find the Shire ravaged — ancient trees felled, gardens destroyed,...
When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she planned to teach kindergarten for a year. One year of service, one small classroom, one modest...
In 1957, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and his colleagues published a landmark paper demonstrating something remarkable: nearly every element essential for life was forged inside dying...
There’s a story about a wise old woman in a small village who had a garden that flourished like no other. Every spring, her garden burst forth with vibrant colors and life, drawing people from miles away. They would come...
In 1871, nine young Black students from Fisk University in Nashville set out on a desperate fundraising tour to save their struggling school. They had...
In a small town, there lived a man named Marcus, a transgender man whose journey had been anything but easy. As a child, he loved to play with trucks, but in the eyes of his family and their church, he...
In a small lab tucked away in a university, a group of scientists dedicated years to developing a new renewable energy source. They were filled with hope, dreaming of a world free from pollution and dependence on fossil fuels. Yet,...
In April 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer and locked him in Berlin's Tegel military prison. The cell was narrow, the blanket filthy, the guards...
In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom and her family had been hiding Jewish refugees behind...
In 2019, seven-year-old Marcus Thompson of Decatur, Georgia, shattered his grandmother's antique vase while throwing a football in the living room. His father, DeShawn, came...