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During the Nazi occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jewish refugees in a secret room behind a false wall in their...
Maria Gonzalez almost didn't survive the surgery. When the tumor wrapped around her spine in 2019, doctors at Houston Methodist gave her a thirty percent...
In the winter of 1838, George Müller sat at a breakfast table in Bristol, England, with three hundred orphans and not a crumb of food...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies launch a 3,000-mile migration from Canada to a remote mountain range in Michoacán, Mexico — a forest of Oyamel fir trees...
Walk through the old churchyard at First Presbyterian in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where tombstones date back to 1664. Notice something peculiar: nearly every grave faces...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, turning over a decision that would define his life. He had recently...
In 2014, Marcus Elliot retired from thirty-one years at a packaging plant in Toledo, Ohio. He had saved carefully. He had plans. A screened-in porch....
On August 12, 2016, floodwaters swallowed southern Louisiana. Before FEMA arrived, before the National Guard mobilized, something remarkable happened. Ordinary people — shrimpers from Lafitte,...
On a gray morning in 1838, three hundred orphans sat at long wooden tables in Bristol, England. The plates were empty. The cups were empty....
In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had...
In September 1941, German forces encircled Leningrad and began a siege that would last 872 days. Inside the starving city, a small group of scientists...
In 155 AD, the aged bishop Polycarp of Smyrna stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. Polycarp replied with words that still...
Dr. Helen Pratt spent forty-one years at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California, examining stones. Over a hundred thousand passed through her hands....
In June of 2008, Linda Crawley stood on the front porch of her Cedar Rapids home and watched the Iowa River swallow her street. Water...
In 1707, four British warships struck the rocks off the Scilly Isles, drowning nearly two thousand sailors in a single night. The fleet's navigator, Sir...
In March of 203 AD, a young Carthaginian noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a dank North African prison, nursing her infant son. Her father...
Margaret Rowe spent forty-one years climbing the seventy-six steps of the Cape Bonavista lighthouse on Newfoundland's eastern coast. Every evening at dusk, without exception, she...
In the Norwegian city of Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, the sun disappears entirely in late November. For nearly two months, the residents live under...
In March of 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Perpetua sat in a sweltering Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through the iron bars. She...
Every Saturday morning in July, Martha Guidry set up a folding table at the end of her gravel driveway outside Houma, Louisiana. On it she...
In 2012, Tom Neuhaus nearly lost everything. His family had farmed six hundred acres outside Salina, Kansas, for three generations, and that summer the worst...
In 1930, the China Inland Mission rejected Gladys Aylward. At twenty-eight, she was a London parlour maid with no formal education, and the mission board...
In Diamond, Missouri, around 1874, a frail orphan boy named George Washington Carver wandered the woods behind the Carver farm, whispering to sickly plants. Neighbors...
In 1956, a twenty-three-year-old Hungarian cellist named Katalin Varga walked across the Austrian border carrying nothing but her instrument case and a photograph of her...