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In 2019, a retired teacher named Margaret Chen sat in her kitchen in Portland, Oregon, fiddling with her late husband's old shortwave radio. She twisted...
On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small German village of Herrnhut made a quiet commitment. They divided the day into...
On April 9, 1906, at a small prayer meeting on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, something broke open that no one could contain. William...
In 1984, Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall had a theory no one would believe. He was convinced that most stomach ulcers were caused by a spiral-shaped...
On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians —...
When the 2018 Camp Fire swept through Paradise, California, Dave and Kathy Locatelli lost everything. Their home of twenty-three years was reduced to a concrete...
In 356 AD, imperial soldiers stormed a church in Alexandria, Egypt, with orders to arrest Bishop Athanasius. The Arian heresy — which denied the full...
In 1942, Irena Sendler was a social worker in Warsaw with a permit to enter the Jewish Ghetto to inspect for typhus. She could have...
In 251 AD, a devastating epidemic swept through the Roman Empire. Historians call it the Plague of Cyprian, and at its peak, it killed five...
On July 2, 2018, British diver John Volanthen surfaced inside a flooded chamber deep within Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. For nine days, the...
Sarah Chen had never run so fast in her life. Her four-year-old son, Marcus, was burning with fever, limp in her arms, and she burst...
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Chen joined a birding group in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. On her first morning walk, she heard...
George Müller of Bristol kept meticulous records. Over sixty years of caring for more than ten thousand orphans in Victorian England, he documented over fifty...
George Müller of Bristol had already lived what most would consider a full life. By age seventy, he had housed over ten thousand orphans, built...
In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach crawled into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains flooded the passages behind them....
Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No....
On New Year's Day, 1863, thousands of formerly enslaved men, women, and children gathered at Camp Saxton near Beaufort, South Carolina. Ancient live oaks trailed...
In 1848, workers broke ground on the Washington Monument in the nation's capital. The marble obelisk rose steadily to 156 feet before political turmoil and...
In October 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage crossing the French countryside, reading Philip Doddridge's *The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul*....
On the evening of May 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland pressed a single golden button inside the Administration Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. In...
In 2019, the city of Detroit planted two identical red maple saplings on either side of Woodward Avenue as part of an urban regreening project....
In 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved consecration hymns: *Take My Life and...
In the autumn of 1785, twenty-six-year-old William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a small parlor on Charles Square in London. Wilberforce had been...