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When NASA flight director Gene Kranz retired in 1994, he didn't just leave behind a desk and a headset. He left behind a way of...
On November 3, 2019, Meb Keflezighi lined up for the New York City Marathon — his final competitive race. At forty-four years old, the Eritrean-born...
On January 25, 1736, a violent storm tore across the Atlantic, splitting the mainsail of the ship *Simmonds* and sending waves crashing over the deck....
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that has haunted readers for over 160 years. Jean Valjean, a convict hardened by nineteen years...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna bearing two devastating words: "Saved alone." The SS Ville du Havre had collided...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his Paris rooms. He was thirty-one years old, brilliant beyond...
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop a jagged escarpment on Okinawa that soldiers had grimly nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge. His company...
In 2019, a hiker named Marcus set out alone on the Kungsleden trail in northern Sweden, a 270-mile route through Arctic wilderness marked by carefully...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. He...
In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom lay dying on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body wasted by malnutrition and forced labor. Her...
Margaret Hendricks had lived in Moore, Oklahoma, long enough to know the difference between a watch and a warning. On May 20, 2013, when the...
By the early 1990s, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Nashville had moved on. His record label dropped him. Decades of...
When NASA selected Mae Jemison for the crew of Space Shuttle *Endeavour* in 1992, she wasn't fearless. She'd grown up on the South Side of...
On April 9, 1945, in the gray dawn at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before being led to the gallows....
The Great Commission ends not with a task but with a presence: "I am with you always, to the end of the age." This isn't Jesus sending us away; it's Jesus going WITH us.
In Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom knelt on a filthy straw mattress and thanked God for fleas. Her sister Corrie thought...
In a small village nestled between rolling hills, lived an elderly woman named Ruth. Widowed for many years, Ruth spent her days tending to her modest garden, where vibrant flowers bloomed alongside the vegetables she shared with her neighbors. Each...
In 1943, Japanese soldiers marched Eric Liddell through the gates of the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong, China. The Scottish Olympic champion who had electrified...
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley — an ordained Anglican priest, Oxford scholar, and former missionary — walked reluctantly to a small gathering on Aldersgate...
In the winter of 1944, Corrie ten Boom huddled with her sister Betsie in Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp. The stench was unbearable. Fleas...
On January 25, 1736, a violent storm tore across the Atlantic and slammed into the small ship carrying John Wesley toward the colony of Georgia....
In 1943, Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter whose story inspired *Chariots of Fire* — found himself behind the walls of the...
On June 2, 1953, over three million people lined the streets of London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. But one moment stands out...
In 2019, a premature baby named Eliana was born at twenty-six weeks in a Nashville NICU, weighing barely two pounds. Her parents, Marcus and Dena,...