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When the Gestapo shuttered his underground seminary at Finkenwalde in 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer did not stop being a pastor to his students. Scattered across Germany,...
Every Sunday morning at Grace Community Church in Tupelo, Mississippi, eighty-three-year-old Martha Jenkins arrives early to bake communion bread. She has done this for thirty-seven...
Sundar Singh was fifteen years old in 1904 when he tore a Bible apart and burned it page by page in his village courtyard in...
In 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. She was a formerly enslaved woman with no formal education,...
When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...
In 2019, a young woman named Cara walked into the public library in Asheville, North Carolina, not sure what she was looking for. She had...
In 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, school bus driver Kevin McKay refused to abandon his route. With flames closing in on...
In July 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris, a gold medal around his neck for the 400 meters. All of Scotland...
In the autumn of 1785, a young Member of Parliament named William Wilberforce was in spiritual crisis. His recent conversion had left him torn —...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London apartment on Brook Street for twenty-four days. He barely ate. His...
In the heart of a bustling city, a community organized a protest against a corrupt city council that had long operated with an iron fist. As the sun began to set, casting a golden glow over the gathering, a diverse...
In March 2019, Maria Gutierrez drove to First National Bank in Tulsa with a folder of documents and a lump in her throat. She had...
In 1983, a wheat farmer named Harold Volkmer stood at the edge of his scorched fields outside Ash Flat, Arkansas, after a wildfire had swept...
In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son and writing in her journal....
In 2018, a team of twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer club and their coach became trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave system...
When Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, the storm surge swallowed entire neighborhoods. Streets became rivers. Homes folded like cardboard. In the...
On a November evening in 1840, David Livingstone knelt in a small London chapel as elder missionaries laid hands on him. He was ordained, commissioned,...
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an underground seminary at Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich Church had made its...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez watched three houses on her block in East Austin flip to investors within a single summer. Glossy renovation crews arrived. Prices...
In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads in London. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in England, had told her she could become...
In 1995, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton traveled to Olympic National Park in Washington State to document something increasingly rare: one square inch of pure silence....
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, plain in education, with no theological degree and no mission board...
For weeks, Annie Sullivan had been pressing letter shapes into seven-year-old Helen Keller's palm. Helen could mimic the finger movements, but she treated them as...
In 2019, Marcus Thompson was a lanky fifteen-year-old shooting free throws alone at a cracked outdoor court in Flint, Michigan. He had no AAU team,...