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In 1995, a South African woman named Pearl Faku sat in the Truth and Reconciliation hearings in East London and listened to the police officer...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared into the water below. The captain had quietly...
Every Saturday morning for eleven years, Dr. Grace Okafor unlocked her dental clinic in East Cleveland at 6:00 a.m. — not for paying patients, but...
In 1519, Huldrych Zwingli stood in the pulpit of the Grossmünster in Zurich and did something almost no one dared. He set aside the prescribed...
In the early 1990s, scientists sealed themselves inside Biosphere 2, a massive glass enclosure in the Arizona desert designed to replicate Earth's ecosystems. They controlled...
In a quiet corner of a bustling park, there stood a young sapling, its fragile branches stretching toward the sky. It was surrounded by towering oak trees, their stately trunks a testament to decades of growth. Day after day, the...
In Yosemite Valley, rock climbers attempting El Capitan's 3,000-foot granite face depend on one thing more than their own strength: their belayer. The belayer stands...
George MacDonald, the Scottish minister and author who mentored C.S. Lewis, suffered repeated failures: churches rejected him, books didn't sell, children died, poverty pressed.
After his wife Joy died, C.S. Lewis wrote "A Grief Observed"—raw, honest, doubting. He questioned everything, including God. "Where is God?" he demanded. "Go to Him when your need is desperate... and what do you find?
Horatio Spafford had already lost much. A young son taken by scarlet fever. A fortune swallowed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But in...
In 2007, a British runner named David Rogers lined up for the London Marathon brimming with confidence. He had trained for months, finished two previous...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled instead to Prague. What he found in the refugee...
On June 30, 2013, nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their fire shelters on a ridge near Yarnell, Arizona. They were some of...
In the heart of California, a small church took a bold step that would ripple through its community like a stone thrown into a tranquil pond. This wasn’t just any church; it was a vibrant congregation that believed in the...
In April 1906, a one-eyed son of former slaves named William Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and began...
In 1943, a sharecropper named Hattie Mae Roberts in Kosciusko, Mississippi, made a quiet promise to God. She couldn't read, owned nothing, and picked cotton...
In 2010, a severe drought gripped the Turkana region of northern Kenya. Wells ran dry. Livestock collapsed in the dust. Families walked hours to find...
When Desmond Doss enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, his commanding officers wanted him gone. A Seventh-day Adventist from Lynchburg, Virginia, Doss refused...
In 1964, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, a windswept rock off the coast of Cape Town. The anti-apartheid movement appeared...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament who had everything London's elite could want — wealth, wit, a voice...
In restricted nations today, Christians face imprisonment, torture, and death for their faith. Yet the church in these places often grows faster than anywhere else. A Chinese house church leader, after years in prison, said: "Prison was Bible school.
Catholics affirm: salvation is by grace through faith. The Council of Trent declared that nothing we do PRECEDES grace or EARNS salvation. But grace then works IN us, producing good works as fruit. The sacraments are channels of this grace—baptism,...
Marcus Webb spent three years designing the Westfield Tower, a mixed-use complex in downtown Cleveland. He drew sightlines and traffic flows, calculated natural light angles,...
In 2018, Desiree Linden became the first American woman in 33 years to win the Boston Marathon. What fewer people remember is that she almost...