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There’s a fascinating story about a small engineering firm in a bustling city that once took on a project intended not for profit, but for the betterment of their community. The city had long suffered from inadequate stormwater drainage, leading...
On March 21, 1748, a violent storm nearly sank the merchant vessel Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-two-year-old sailor who had mocked...
On April 19, 1956, Grace Kelly stood aboard the SS Constitution as it pulled into the harbor of Monaco. Behind her lay everything she had...
When Roman authorities dragged the elderly bishop Polycarp before the proconsul in Smyrna around 155 AD, they offered him a simple bargain: curse Christ and...
In 2015, Dallas chef Chad Houser opened Cafe Momentum, a restaurant staffed almost entirely by teenagers coming out of juvenile detention. Most of these kids...
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula on the Hawaiian...
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 1912, Sadhu Sundar Singh arrived in a remote Tibetan village to preach the gospel. The village lama was furious. He ordered Sundar Singh arrested...
In 2015, biochemist Tomas Lindahl received the Nobel Prize for a discovery that should have been discouraging: human DNA is shockingly unstable. Every single day,...
When Marcus Thompson showed up for his first day at the Midnight Basketball League in Southeast Washington, D.C., he expected drills and wind sprints. Instead,...
When Joy Davidman died of cancer in July 1960, C.S. Lewis — the man who had spent decades writing the twentieth century's most compelling defenses...
In today's tumultuous political landscape, the call to cultivate a better political imagination is both an urgent challenge and a hopeful opportunity for progressive Christians. Picture this: a small town grappling with rising tensions surrounding immigration. Families are divided, friends...
When Marcus Thompson walked into Magnolia Kitchen in Birmingham, Alabama, he wasn't looking for a career. He was looking for a meal. He'd been sleeping...
Imagine a small fishing village nestled along a rocky coast, where the waves crash fiercely against the cliffs. Each morning, fishermen set out into the churning sea, their boats small and vulnerable against the vastness of the ocean. They know...
In the heart of our bustling modern world, where the whispers of climate change echo through our cities and landscapes, we find ourselves in a narrative as ancient as time. Picture the Apostle Peter, standing on the rooftop in Joppa,...
In September 2005, Marcus and Deena Williams evacuated New Orleans with their three children, two garbage bags of clothing, and half a tank of gas....
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine of Hippo sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He was thirty-one, brilliant, restless, and...
In the apple orchards of Yakima Valley, Washington, growers practice an ancient technique called grafting. A farmer takes a cutting from a prized Honeycrisp tree...
Every few years, something miraculous happens in Chile's Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth. After an unexpected rainfall, the barren, cracked ground that...
In 1822, workers finished constructing the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse off the southeast coast of Ireland. It sat on a jagged outcrop battered by Atlantic storms,...
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...
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...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864, stolen as an infant by Confederate raiders, and traded for a racehorse. The world...
In a small roastery in Portland, Oregon, twenty-three-year-old Mateo Reyes stood over a drum roaster for the first time, overwhelmed by heat and noise. His...