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In 2004, a swarm of desert locusts descended on West Africa — the worst infestation in fifteen years. Farmers in Mali watched helplessly as clouds...
In the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, the mesquite tree appears unremarkable — a twisted trunk, sparse leaves, standing in soil so dry it cracks like...
In 2019, a NICU nurse named Mary Beth Harrell at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville started an unusual practice. Each evening during her shift, she...
In 155 AD, Roman soldiers marched into the hills outside Smyrna to arrest an elderly bishop named Polycarp. He was eighty-six years old, a disciple...
When William Tyndale smuggled the first printed English New Testament into England in 1526, he did so because he believed something radical — that ordinary...
Every January, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians set out on foot toward the ancient city of Lalibela, high in the mountains of northern...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts could barely sleep. For thirteen years he had prayed the same desperate...
In 1505, Martin Luther's father Hans had mapped out his son's entire future. Martin would study law, rise in society, and bring honor to the...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on a ship crossing the Atlantic, knowing that somewhere beneath those cold waters, his four daughters had drowned weeks...
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Father Damien arrived on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, home to a leper colony where the government had...
In the winter of 1854, the British military hospital at Scutari was a place of formless chaos. Wounded soldiers from the Crimean War lay on...
In December 2016, as Syrian government forces closed in on eastern Aleppo, a young journalist named Lina Shamy recorded a final video message. With dust...
On April 15, 1945, British soldiers rolled open the gates of Bergen-Belsen. Sixty thousand prisoners stood on the other side. The soldiers expected cheering, embraces,...
In the spring of 1943, German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to Tegel military prison in Berlin. He had spent...
In 2019, hiker Kyle Burgess was jogging a stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail near Slate Canyon, Utah, when a cougar began stalking him. For...
In 2019, a retired Marine named David Cade walked into a small church in Clarksville, Tennessee, carrying thirty years of silence. He had never told...
In 1896, George Washington Carver was a quiet graduate student at Iowa State, content to tend his greenhouse experiments in obscurity. He had wandered for...
During the Siege of Leiden in 1574, the people of Holland faced a crisis eerily similar to Israel at Rephidim. Spanish forces had surrounded the...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a man with a doctorate in Greek from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — did something his colleagues found baffling. Instead...
In 1637, the Dutch city of Haarlem was gripped by tulip fever. Fortunes changed hands over small, wrinkled bulbs that looked like dried onions. A...
In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle before two billion viewers worldwide. But the...
In 2019, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina planted two identical red oak saplings along Maple Street, just three blocks apart. Same species, same nursery,...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — short, uneducated, and utterly unremarkable by the world's standards. When she applied to the...
In the summer of 1993, the small farming community of Hardin, Montana, watched the Bighorn River swell past its banks after weeks of relentless rain....