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Instead, this apostle, who had seen Christ Himself on the Damascus road, gathered three companions: Timothy, Silas, and Luke.
In October 1943, the Gestapo came for Irena Sendler. For months, the thirty-three-year-old Polish social worker had used her permit to inspect the Warsaw Ghetto...
Maclaren identifies three movements in this fatal process.
In January 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Marian Anderson permission to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., solely because she was...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Before leaving, he had...
As a boy in Arbois, France, Louis Pasteur watched a man bitten by a rabid wolf being dragged to the local blacksmith. The only known...
In the winter of 1906, sanitary engineer George Soper was hired to investigate a puzzling typhoid outbreak at a rented summer home in Oyster Bay,...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel barely left his rooms at 25 Brook Street in London. For twenty-four consecutive days, from August...
Peter's gaze was no casual glance—it was a reciprocal examination.
In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...
On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel shut himself inside his home at 25 Brook Street in London and began to compose. For...
Perseverance is the badge of the saint—marked in Scripture, confirmed by analogy, and vindicated by common sense.
In the summer of 1899, nurses from Great Britain, the United States, and Germany gathered at the International Congress of Women in London with a...
In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...
In the summer of 1944, Raoul Wallenberg had every reason to stay home. At thirty-one, he was heir to one of Sweden's most prominent banking...
Trees inhabited Eden's garden where Yahweh first conversed with mankind beneath their shadow.
First, we must awake fully to the importance of Yahweh's commands: give them intelligent and reverent examination, store them in memory, and study their beneficent operation.
For nearly two decades, Cuban physician Dr. Carlos Finlay stood before medical conferences insisting that mosquitoes carried yellow fever. The scientific establishment dismissed him. Colleagues...
On May 5, 1945, American soldiers scrambled to retreat down the four-hundred-foot Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa as Japanese forces overwhelmed their position. Dozens of wounded...
On September 19, 1940, a Polish cavalry officer named Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited to be arrested. A German roundup was...
Paul (Galatians 3:19) and Stephen (Acts 7:53) explicitly affirm angelic agency in law-giving, yet the Pentateuch itself remains ambiguous.
In 1939, Oskar Schindler arrived in Kraków as an opportunist. A member of the Nazi Party, the German industrialist acquired a seized enamelware factory and...