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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...
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of displaced families across Louisiana, a small congregation in Shreveport called Greater St. Mary Baptist Church faced a...
Every spring, in the stone-walled courtyard gardens of Provence, old roses that have climbed the same walls for generations are tended by patient hands. They...
In 2019, a family in rural Tennessee installed a security system after a string of neighborhood break-ins. Motion sensors, cameras, a loud alarm — the...
In 2008, when the housing market collapsed and took half of Wall Street with it, a small contractor named Bob Thompson in Grand Rapids, Michigan,...
On any coral reef from the Red Sea to the shallow waters off Papua New Guinea, the sea anemone is a quiet killer. Its tentacles...
A few years ago, I stood in a small observatory with a group of eager young students, their faces illuminated by the glow of screens displaying distant galaxies. As the astrophysicist pointed his telescope toward the night sky, he spoke...
In the winter of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a concrete cell in Tegel Prison, Berlin, and wrote the poem that would outlast his captors....
Every February, Helen Matsuda spread her seed catalogs across the kitchen table in her small Yakima Valley farmhouse and planned the spring. She had done...
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...
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...
In the autumn of 1940, London burned. German bombers pounded the city night after night during the Blitz, and thick clouds of smoke hung over...
In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas stood in his church on the island of Hispaniola and read the words of Ecclesiasticus:...
When journalist Sarah Bessey's daughter was born premature at a hospital in Abbotsford, British Columbia, the NICU nurses told her something she never forgot. They...
In 2019, a welder named Marco Hernandez opened a small custom bicycle shop in Portland, Oregon. He specialized in handbuilt steel frames, bending and brazing...
In December 2004, a man stood on Marina Beach in Chennai, India, and watched the Indian Ocean pull back hundreds of yards from the shore....
In December 1874, a ferocious windstorm tore through the Sierra Nevada with such force that the ancient trees bent like grass. Most people ran for...
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 2019, Yumi Tanaka boarded a one-way flight from Tokyo to a small fishing village in northern Scotland. She was marrying Callum, a boat builder...
In 2018, a young worship leader named Keisha drove three hours from Atlanta to her grandmother's house in rural Alabama. She had just learned she...
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 2014, a transmission shop owner named Cathy Heying opened a garage in a rough stretch of South Minneapolis. But Cathy's shop, the Lift Garage,...
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...
Inside a monarch butterfly's chrysalis, something almost unthinkable happens. Biologists who have carefully opened chrysalises at different stages discovered that the caterpillar doesn't simply rearrange...