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In 1725, the elders of Epworth, England, fully expected young Samuel Wesley Jr. to carry on the family's clerical legacy as the firstborn son. But...
In 1885, a seven-year-old girl named Mary McLeod walked five miles each day to a one-room schoolhouse in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth...
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood at the bow of a Chilean tugboat, scanning the frozen shore of Elephant Island through binoculars. Four months earlier,...
Imagine a small fishing boat, its paint peeling and worn by the salt and spray of the sea, battling the furious waves of a stormy ocean. The sky is a tapestry of dark clouds, and flashes of lightning illuminate the...
In December 1983, South African police captain Johan van der Merwe helped orchestrate a campaign of violence against Black communities resisting apartheid. Bombings. Raids. Families...
In 2003, after thirteen years of painstaking work, Francis Collins and an international team of scientists completed the Human Genome Project — mapping the entire...
In the Roman Empire, unwanted newborns were carried to the city dump and left on mounds of ash and refuse. Romans called the practice "exposure"...
In 2009, the town of Drachten in the Netherlands tried something radical. Traffic engineers removed nearly all the stop signs, traffic lights, and lane markings...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a decision that would define his life. Just two years...
In 1957, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and his colleagues published a landmark paper explaining how the elements inside our bodies were forged inside dying stars. The...
In 1510, Leonardo da Vinci hunched over a candlelit table in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, carefully peeling back layers of muscle...
When we think of great hymns, we often picture dramatic backstories — shipwrecks, deathbed conversions, narrow escapes. But one of the most beloved hymns in...
When Roman soldiers came for Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in AD 155, the elderly pastor was eighty-six years old. He had spent a lifetime shepherding...
In 1943, Corrie ten Boom stood in the hallway of her family's narrow house on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. Her father Casper had just...
In 2022, Bible translators with Wycliffe completed the New Testament in Kakchiquel, a Mayan language spoken by nearly half a million people in the highlands...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...
In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge killed two young women in a Florida car crash. One of them was twenty-year-old Meagan Napier. Her...
In April 1906, William Joseph Seymour — the son of formerly enslaved parents, blind in one eye, once forced to listen to Bible school lectures...
In 1903, a fourteen-year-old Sikh boy named Sundar Singh tore a Bible apart page by page and burned it in his courtyard in Rampur, India....
In 1884, C.T. Studd was the most celebrated cricketer in England. Captain of the Cambridge team, national sporting hero, heir to a vast fortune —...
In the summer of 1943, Louis Zamperini drifted on a life raft in the Pacific Ocean, sunburned and starving, sharks circling beneath him. The former...
When Marcus Powell graduated from the Denver Fire Academy in March 2019, his mother pinned the badge to his chest while his whole family cheered...
In 2023, a park ranger at Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky led a group of tourists deep into the longest known cave system on earth...
In 2018, Maria Santos walked into a community center in Tucson, Arizona, carrying two gallons of water she'd hauled from a distribution point six blocks...