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In the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where the river bends like the stories of our ancestors, a small church community has come together to fight against the encroaching effects of climate change. The congregation of St. Matthew’s African Methodist...
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...
In 1844, George Müller sat at the head of a long table in Bristol, England, surrounded by three hundred orphans. The plates were set. The...
In the winter of 1851, Harriet Tubman stood at the edge of a frozen Maryland marsh, leading eleven fugitives north toward freedom. She had no...
In 2019, a high school English teacher in Nashville named Clara Johnson noticed a student named Marcus sitting in the back row, hood up, headphones...
For twelve years, Marco Chen knew his grandfather only in pieces. A faded photograph on the mantel. His mother's stories about a man who survived...
In the autumn of 1555, John Knox knelt by a window in Edinburgh, his forehead pressed against cold stone, and prayed words that those outside...
For three years, the women's Bible study at Redeemer Church in Tulsa fasted every Wednesday during Lent. They skipped lunch, gathered in the fellowship hall,...
For seventeen years, Monica of Hippo refused to stop knocking. Her son Augustine was brilliant, restless, and utterly lost. He chased philosophy in Carthage, took...
In May 1862, Robert Smalls stood at the wheel of the CSS Planter in Charleston Harbor, his heart pounding as Confederate fortifications loomed in the...
In 1987, a development company offered Raymond Watts three times the market value for his sixty-acre tobacco farm outside Lexington, Kentucky. When he refused, things...
In 1838, George Müller sat at the head of a long table in Bristol, England, surrounded by three hundred orphans. The plates were set. The...
Before he shook the foundations of medieval Europe, Martin Luther was a young Augustinian monk in Erfurt, Germany, paralyzed by the holiness of God. His...
For three months, Brian Hernandez ignored the tightness in his chest. He told his wife it was stress from the new job. He skipped his...
In December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on a million-mile journey into deep space. Months later, NASA released its first...
Deep inside a mountain on a remote Norwegian island, 800 miles from the North Pole, sits the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Opened in 2008, it...
In 1685, a boy was born in Halle, Germany, to a barber-surgeon who had already planned his son's future. Georg Handel would study law. There...
In March 2019, when the Missouri River surged over its banks near Craig, Missouri, rancher Dave Hogeland lost track of forty-three head of cattle. Neighbors...
When Maria Sandoval's youngest son came down with croup in the middle of February, she did what parents have always done — she stopped sleeping....
A few years back, I found myself on a small boat, navigating the turbulent waters of a lake during an unexpected storm. The wind howled like a wild animal, and the waves thrashed against the hull, threatening to pull us...
Margaret Chen sang to her husband David every night of his final three months. Not hymns — though she knew hundreds — but the same...
In 2019, a small congregation in Flint, Michigan, had been holding weekly prayer vigils about the water crisis for nearly four years. They fasted. They...
In the heart of California, nestled among oak trees and sun-drenched hills, stands a church that has embraced a bold vision of stewardship—a vision shaped by the teachings of Christ. This is not just any congregation; this is a living...
On a cold November evening in 2019, thirteen-year-old Marcus slipped out of his grandmother's house in Memphis and didn't come back. He'd broken her antique...