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When German bombs leveled Coventry Cathedral on November 14, 1940, the people of Coventry wept among the smoking ruins of their beloved fourteenth-century church. The...
In the spring of 1940, Winston Churchill assumed leadership of Britain at what many believed was the end of civilization itself. France was falling. The...
In 1945, the people of Coventry, England, stood in the wreckage of their beloved St. Michael's Cathedral, reduced to a burned-out shell by German incendiary...
In 1687, Isaac Newton published his law of universal gravitation, and astronomers began calculating the forces that govern our solar system. What they discovered is...
In the spring of 1843, a former slave named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City carrying nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and...
After Jesus ascended, He told the disciples to WAIT in Jerusalem for the Spirit. They waited 10 days—praying, worshipping, expecting. Then Pentecost exploded. The waiting wasn't passive; it was pregnant with expectation. "Those who wait on the LORD shall renew...
For eleven years, Margaret Chen wrote letters to her sponsored child, Amara, in a small village outside Kigali, Rwanda. She sent photographs, birthday cards, handwritten...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crippling debt. His operas...
In November 2019, amateur runner Sarah Sellers crossed the twenty-fifth mile of the New York City Marathon and simply stopped. She walked to the curb,...
In 2014, a janitorial supervisor named Hector Vega worked the overnight shift at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had no medical degree, no letters...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer was drowning in debt, his operas failing before half-empty London...
When the 2011 tornado flattened half of Joplin, Missouri, Earl Schaffer lost his equipment barn, two grain bins, and most of his winter wheat crop....
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final with everything he had trained for on the line. Halfway...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage traveling through the French countryside with Isaac Milner, a Cambridge professor and old friend....
In 1989, when Hurricane Hugo slammed into Charleston, South Carolina, with 140-mile-per-hour winds, it flattened homes, snapped century-old oaks like matchsticks, and reshaped the coastline...
On a July night in 2002, nine families huddled outside a pasture in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, waiting for news they feared would never come. Their...
In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor. Her work explored hyperbolic surfaces — shapes so complex...
In a small town, there lived an elderly woman named Clara, renowned for her radiant goodness. Each Sunday, as she walked to church, her neighbors would stop to admire the way she carried herself, her head held high and her...
On January 25, 1736, a violent Atlantic storm nearly split the ship *Simmonds* in two. The mainmast cracked. Seawater poured over the deck and flooded...
In 1813, Adoniram Judson sailed from America with India fixed firmly in his mind. He would plant the gospel there, he was certain. But the...
In 1952, a young minister named Will Campbell sat in a segregated diner in Nashville, laughing with his white colleagues while a Black seminary student...
In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling...
In 2014, a young father in Chattanooga named Marcus Wheeler learned his wife was expecting their first child. That evening, he opened a leather journal...
On August 1, 1838, a young British lieutenant named John Hanning Speke stood at the edge of Lake Victoria and scratched precise coordinates into his...