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In the Wadi Rum desert of southern Jordan, midday temperatures can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The sand radiates heat so intense it blurs the horizon...
In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the German village of Herrnhut on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate. They were fractured,...
In 1066, somewhere in England or Normandy, a group of embroiderers began stitching what would become the Bayeux Tapestry — 230 feet of linen depicting...
On April 15, 2019, the world watched Notre-Dame de Paris burn. Flames devoured the 850-year-old roof. The iconic spire collapsed in a shower of sparks....
In 1822, Charlotte Elliott was thirty-two years old and chronically ill — bedridden for months at a time, questioning her worth, her faith, even her...
In 2019, mountaineer Sarah Marquis described something that every serious climber knows but few expect the first time. On the ascent of a major peak,...
On June 2, 1953, twenty-seven million people in Britain alone watched something unprecedented — a coronation broadcast live on television. Inside Westminster Abbey, the young...
On a bitter winter day in 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems squeezed through the window of his prison cell in Asperen, Holland. He...
In 2014, a retired midwife named Margaret Abrams sat in a church pew in Bristol, England, and watched a young couple carry their newborn son...
In June of 1882, a Scottish minister named George Matheson sat alone in his family home while the rest of the household celebrated his sister's...
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, twelve scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources starved to death — surrounded by tons of edible...
In 2019, seventeen-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in a chair far too large for her small frame, facing a room full of seasoned politicians in the...
Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, a moment immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. The world offered him fame, endorsement deals, a comfortable...
In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful finally reach the last obstacle before the Celestial City — a deep, dark river...
In 1857, a Scottish minister named George Muller ran five orphanages in Bristol, England, housing over two thousand children. He never once asked for a...
Dr. Rachel Nguyen still remembers her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins. Her attending physician, Dr. Owens, pressed a stethoscope to a patient's...
In *The Return of the King*, J.R.R. Tolkien gives us one of literature's most quietly powerful portraits of faith. Sam Gamgee finds himself deep in...
In 1987, Dr. Paul Farmer was a twenty-seven-year-old medical student who walked into a squatter settlement outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and realized that every diagnosis he...
In 1732, two young Moravian men — Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann — stood on a dock in Copenhagen with almost nothing. They had volunteered...
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers her mysterious great-great-grandmother living in a hidden tower room. The grandmother gives Irene...
On the night before Easter, 387 AD, a thirty-two-year-old professor named Augustine stepped into the baptismal pool at the cathedral in Milan. Bishop Ambrose stood...
In 1930, a young German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, largely unimpressed. He found the academic theology...
In December 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled, conductor Daniel Barenboim gathered musicians from East and West Berlin to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. For twenty-eight...
In 1934, two researchers at the University of Cologne noticed something that seemed impossible. When they directed sound waves through a flask of water, tiny...