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Every Sunday morning, the congregation of Grace Fellowship in Baton Rouge sang three hymns, bowed for a long pastoral prayer, and drove home past the...
In January 1945, when Soviet forces entered Warsaw, they found a city that was 85% destroyed. The Nazi regime had systematically demolished it block by...
Imagine a curious child, perhaps eight or nine years old, standing at the edge of a vast lake. The water glistens in the sunlight, a mirror reflecting the endless sky above. This child, with a bucket in hand, eagerly scoops...
In 1857, Frederick Law Olmsted stood before New York's city commissioners with plans to transform 843 acres of swampland, pig farms, and squatter shanties into...
In February 2022, a massive solar storm erupted from the sun's surface, hurling a wave of charged particles toward Earth at over a million miles...
In January 1907, fifteen hundred Korean Christians packed into the Central Presbyterian Church in Pyongyang for a week of Bible study. The city had suffered...
In a dusty laboratory at the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, keeper Billy Collett does something that looks like madness. Several times a week,...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan held a doctorate in Greek New Testament from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He could have pastored a prestigious church or lectured...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, the wealthiest neighborhoods dried out within days. Insurance adjusters arrived. Contractors lined up. But in Kashmere...
When Sergeant Maria Reyes received her reassignment orders at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan, everything looked the same — the dust, the heat, the...
In the early 1980s, a young American named Paul Farmer traveled to Cange, Haiti — a village perched on the central plateau, so poor and...
In the heart of our bustling community, there stood a small coffee shop, a refuge amidst the chaos of the world outside. During the peak of the global pandemic, it became a lifeline for many. Each morning, the owner, Maria,...
For twenty years, William Wilberforce rose in the British Parliament and introduced the same bill to abolish the slave trade. Twenty years. He was mocked,...
As I sat in my garden last spring, watching the sun rise over the horizon, I was reminded of the profound truth in Genesis 1:1-5, where God brings light into the chaos. This moment resonated with me not just as...
In 1863, the United States was tearing itself apart. Battlefield casualties mounted into the hundreds of thousands. Abraham Lincoln — a man who had lost...
On January 20, 2021, Washington D.C. looked like a fortress. Twenty-five thousand National Guard troops lined the streets. Razor wire topped temporary fencing around the...
In 1932, Gladys Aylward stood on the platform at Liverpool Street Station with a one-way ticket to China and a suitcase held together with a...
It was a chilly autumn evening when I found myself wandering through a local park, wrapped in a scarf and lost in thought. The trees, vibrant with oranges and golds, rustled softly in the wind, creating a symphony of whispers....
In 1835, George Müller sat in his study in Bristol, England, reading Scripture about caring for the fatherless. He had read such passages many times...
In 1940s South Africa, a nine-year-old boy walked beside his mother down a dusty Johannesburg street. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were treated as invisible...
For fourteen years, David Chen of Portland, Oregon, left his porch light on every single night. His daughter, Mei, had walked out at seventeen after...
In 1868, German physician Carl Wunderlich published a landmark study establishing 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit as the baseline for human body temperature. What he also documented...
There’s a small community garden in our town, tended by a group of volunteers from different backgrounds. One spring, they decided to grow a variety of vegetables, but the soil was rocky and hard. Many doubted that anything could flourish...
A few years ago, I met a woman named Maria who lived in a small town. Maria was known for her radiant joy, a light that seemed to shine even on the cloudiest of days. Yet, her journey to this...