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On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer walked to the gallows at Flossenburg concentration camp. The camp doctor who witnessed his execution later wrote that he...
When a veteran airline captain makes her final flight, the aviation world honors her with a tradition called the water cannon salute. Two fire trucks...
Imagine a small village nestled by a thirsty desert, where the sun blazes relentlessly upon the earth, turning the landscape into a sea of shimmering heat. In the center of this village stood an ancient well, a stone structure worn...
In March 1974, Japanese intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda finally emerged from the Philippine jungle on Lubang Island, where he had been hiding for twenty-nine years....
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's garden at Embley Park in Hampshire, England, and heard something she could not explain....
In 2018, a group of hikers attempted the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire during winter — a peak infamous for its unpredictable, deadly...
On March 10, 1748, a violent storm nearly swallowed the slave trading ship Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-two-year-old sailor who had...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, and heard what she...
For eleven years, Maria Santos searched for her birth mother. A hospital intake form from 1987 gave her a first name — Rosa. A cousin...
In a small town, there lived an elderly woman named Ruth. She had a garden that was the envy of all, bursting with vibrant colors and fragrant blooms. Yet, Ruth’s secret to her garden's beauty wasn’t just her green thumb;...
For decades, astronomers pieced together their understanding of the early universe through fragments. Radio telescopes captured faint whispers from distant galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope...
On February 23, 1945, a small group of Marines climbed Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag at its...
In 2019, Maria and Carlos Espinoza spent four months transforming a spare bedroom in their San Antonio home into a nursery. Carlos sanded and painted...
On the evening of May 4, 1945, a BBC announcer read a single sentence that changed everything for the people of Denmark: "The German forces...
In March 1748, John Newton's slave ship nearly broke apart in a violent North Atlantic storm. Waves crashed through the deck as the vessel listed...
In 1997, two years after the Bosnian War ended, a blacksmith named Zajko Hadzimuratovic returned to his shop in Gornji Vakuf, a town split between...
In 2006, a music teacher in the Spokane, Washington area brought an old violin to an appraiser. It had been sitting in a closet for...
In the spring of 1943, a young mother named Clara Simmons stood outside the offices of the War Department in Washington, D.C. Her husband had...
Tolkien, devout Anglican, coined the word "eucatastrophe"—the sudden turn in a story where everything seems lost, then unexpectedly comes right. He saw it in the gospel: crucifixion looked like the end; resurrection was eucatastrophe. Jeremiah 29:11 is eucatastrophic promise: exile...
In 1569, Dutch Anabaptist Dirk Willems was fleeing authorities who would execute him for his faith. He crossed a frozen pond; the ice held his slight frame. His pursuer, heavier, broke through and began drowning. Willems turned back and saved the man's life.
On a sweltering July night in 1893, a young man named James Cornish staggered into Provident Hospital in Chicago with a knife wound to the...
Every autumn, European robins launch themselves into vast, featureless skies and fly thousands of miles to their wintering grounds in North Africa. They travel at...
In 1943, a young Dutch woman named Corrie ten Boom watched her elderly father, Caspar, open their front door in Haarlem to a terrified Jewish...
"Not by works"—what good news for those the system has labeled unproductive! The unemployed, the disabled, the elderly, the sick cannot earn their worth through labor. Grace declares worth before achievement. The poor hear Ephesians 2:8-9 and understand: they matter...