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When Dave Hernandez collapsed in the produce aisle of the Kroger on Fifth and Elm, he had no church, no family in town, and a...
In 1856, Biddy Mason walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free woman. She had been enslaved for thirty-two years, carried across the country...
In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed African American preacher, the son of formerly enslaved parents — began holding prayer meetings in a...
When William Tyndale was born around 1494 in the rolling countryside of western England, no one recorded the event. His parents were unremarkable landholders. The...
In February 1945, Eric Liddell was dying of a brain tumor inside a Japanese internment camp in Weihsien, China. The Olympic gold medalist who had...
During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer woke in Flossenbürg concentration camp knowing he would not see another sunrise. The German pastor and theologian had spent...
In a small town nestled among rolling hills, there lived a woman named Maria. Known for her endless kindness, she ran a modest bakery that filled the streets with the comforting aroma of freshly baked bread. Each morning, Maria would...
Every spring, Margaret Kowalski wages war with the wisteria in her backyard on Maple Street in Savannah. Left alone for a single season, the vine...
When Marcus Chen was diagnosed with ALS in 2019, his neighbors in a small subdivision outside Raleigh, North Carolina, didn't organize a single grand fundraiser...
In 2019, a cardiac surgeon in Nashville told forty-seven-year-old Marcus Dean that his dangerously high blood pressure could be managed — not with an experimental...
When astronaut Scott Kelly began his 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015, he didn't drift through space alone. Every day, hundreds of...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a newly released convict named Jean Valjean stumbles through a world that wants nothing to do with him. Every inn...
Dr. Sarah Chen, a radiologist at Johns Hopkins, once described her work this way: "Patients walk into my office looking perfectly fine on the outside....
In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...
In 1825, a young German theology student named George Müller spent his evenings gambling, drinking, and stealing from friends. He once forged his father's signature...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a disagreeable boy named Eustace Scrubb wanders into a dragon's cave and falls asleep on a...
In 1856, British surveyor Andrew Waugh sat at his desk in Dehradun, India, staring at calculations that defied every mountain he had ever measured. Peak...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall was certain he had discovered the true cause of most stomach ulcers — not stress or spicy...
In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...
Every morning for thirty-seven years, Margaret Chen walked the same half-mile stretch along Riverside Drive in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She knew every tree on that path....
On April 12, 1955, scientists at the University of Michigan announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." Within minutes, church bells...
In 2019, sixteen-year-old Marcus Freeman Jr. sat in his father's office at Purdue, watching game film he didn't fully understand. His dad pointed at the...
In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured...