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In 1517, a Dominican friar named Johann Tetzel traveled through German towns with a wagon and a catchy slogan: "As soon as a coin in...
There’s a small community garden in my neighborhood that has become a rich tapestry of faith and transformation. A few years ago, it was just an abandoned lot, filled with weeds and forgotten debris. But one day, a group of...
On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small village of Herrnhut, Saxony, made a quiet covenant. Under the pastoral care of...
In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune rented a small cottage in Daytona Beach, Florida, and opened a school for Black girls with five students, a dollar...
In 2015, three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering something remarkable happening inside every living cell. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz...
When Luther was condemned and hunted, his friends staged a "kidnapping" to hide him in Wartburg Castle. Luther called it "the best thing that happened" to him.
In the autumn of 1857, a quiet businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier reserved a room on the third floor of the Old Dutch Church on Fulton...
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand in the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes for one crime: she was a Huguenot who refused to...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a borrowed office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, safe from the gathering storm in Europe. Friends...
In downtown Taxco, Mexico, a third-generation silversmith named Eduardo Pineda sits before a crucible of molten metal, his eyes fixed on the glowing surface. The...
In 1984, Australian physician Barry Marshall was convinced he had discovered the true cause of stomach ulcers — a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called *Helicobacter pylori*. The...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto the rocky shore of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered to...
In 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament known for his charm, his gambling, and his love of fine wine and late-night card...
When the phone rang at 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, Rachel Dominguez was grading seventh-grade essays at her kitchen table in Tulsa. The voice on...
On August 6, 1945, a single bomb reduced Hiroshima to ash and shadow. Over 140,000 people perished. The city lay in ruins so complete that...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — had an encounter he could barely...
On the morning of May 5, 1945, a young Dutch resistance courier named Ada pedaled her battered bicycle through the streets of Leidschendam, a town...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a careless doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunrise, a flower, or a...
In 1453, the defenders of Constantinople trusted their walls. For over a thousand years, those triple-layered fortifications had repelled every siege — Arabs, Bulgars, Vikings,...
In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, convinced he was building something magnificent for God. He poured forty-three years...
In 2018, Des Linden won the Boston Marathon in driving rain, brutal headwinds, and near-freezing temperatures. But what most people forget is that around mile...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood at the top of the gymnastics world. She was the most decorated gymnast in history, the overwhelming...
A Lutheran pastor in Nazi Germany secretly baptized Jewish children to save them from the Holocaust, giving them Christian identities that protected them. Was it right? The questions are complex, but notice: he saw baptism as powerful, real, consequential.
In 1510, a gaunt Augustinian monk knelt in a cold Erfurt confessional for the sixth consecutive hour. Martin Luther was cataloguing every sinful thought, every...