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In 1963, a young civil rights worker named Fannie Lou Hamer stood before a credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She had been beaten...
In 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake outside Brussels. His crime? Translating the Bible into English so that, as he once...
In 328 AD, a young Egyptian bishop named Athanasius of Alexandria found himself standing virtually alone against the Roman Empire. The Arian heresy — which...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts could barely sleep. For thirteen years he had prayed for revival, and...
Biddy Mason walked nearly 1,700 miles behind a wagon train from Mississippi to California in 1851 — still enslaved, herding cattle the entire way. When...
On August 27, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa erupted with what remains the loudest sound in recorded human history. The blast was heard on...
In 2019, a couple in Nashville named David and Maria Torres finally completed the adoption of their daughter, Lily, from foster care. The process had...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward knelt beside her narrow bed in a London parlor maid's quarters and asked God for one thing: passage to China. The...
In 2019, Marcus and Elena Torres closed on a house in Asheville, North Carolina, three months before they could actually move from their cramped apartment...
In 1987, ophthalmologists Leonard Flom and Aran Safir published a discovery that would reshape security technology forever. They found that the human iris contains at...
In the winter of 1515, Martin Luther knelt in his cramped cell at the Black Cloister in Wittenberg, his body gaunt from fasting and sleepless...
In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched two sentences into his journal: "God Almighty...
When the Nazis released Corrie ten Boom from Ravensbruck concentration camp in December 1944, she walked out with almost nothing. The watch shop her family...
Not long ago, I found myself entranced by a small patch of wildflowers in my backyard, illuminated by the golden morning sun. As I watched, a tiny line of ants marched diligently across the ground, each with a purpose, seemingly...
In the heart of a bustling city, there stood a small community garden, its vibrant colors a striking contrast against the grey concrete that surrounded it. Each spring, the garden would come alive as neighbors of all backgrounds—young and old,...
In 2019, park ranger Sarah Gonzalez noticed something troubling at Grand Canyon National Park. Visitors would arrive at the South Rim, glance over the edge...
In a bustling city, there was a progressive church that stood as a beacon of hope for those who felt cast aside. Among the congregation was Marcus, a transgender man whose journey had been fraught with both pain and courage....
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. London's musical establishment had turned against him. Creditors circled. His operas played to...
In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny, seemingly empty patch of sky — no bigger than a grain of sand held...
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for...
On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait erupted with a force the modern world had never witnessed. The explosion was...
Margaret Owens spent forty-three years in the same clapboard house on Greensburg Street in New Orleans. She raised four children there, buried her husband from...
In 1858, twenty-year-old John Wanamaker gathered a handful of children in a vacant lot in Philadelphia and started a Sunday school class. He had no...
When Andrea Bocelli was born in a small Tuscan village in 1958, doctors advised his parents to terminate the pregnancy. They refused. He arrived with...