In 2019, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly canceled its entire spring season. A labor dispute had divided musicians from management, and for weeks, silence filled...

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13Universal

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Corrie ten Boom's Hidden Refuge

In the winter of 1943, Corrie ten Boom's modest home in Haarlem, Holland, became something extraordinary. Behind a false wall in her bedroom, a cramped...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Emergency Room That Runs on Everyone

On a Friday night in March 2023, a five-car pileup on I-75 outside Atlanta sent eleven patients flooding into Grady Memorial Hospital's trauma bay within...

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13Universal

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The Communion Bread of Moravian Herrnhut

On August 13, 1727, the small community of Herrnhut in Saxony was fracturing. Czech Hussites, German Pietists, and Reformed exiles — all living on Count...

1 Corinthians 10:16-17Universal

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Wesley at Whitefield's Grave

In 1770, George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and thousands mourned the greatest evangelist of the age. Back in London, someone asked John Wesley —...

1 Corinthians 1:10-18Universal

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The Habitat House on Millbrook Lane

In 2019, Maria Gonzalez and her three children moved into a Habitat for Humanity home on Millbrook Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over four hundred...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Refugees Who Became a Movement

In 1722, a ragged band of Protestant refugees from Moravia arrived on the estate of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing —...

1 Corinthians 1:1-9Universal

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Louis Zamperini and the Body Set Free

In 1943, Olympic miler Louis Zamperini crashed into the Pacific Ocean aboard a failing bomber. He survived forty-seven days on a life raft, then endured...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Bulbs of Haarlem

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...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

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Augustine's Confession in the Garden

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years enslaved to desires...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Orchestra That Didn't Know What It Had

In 2019, a community orchestra in Chattanooga, Tennessee nearly dissolved. Attendance was thin, morale was low, and the musicians — mostly amateurs who squeezed rehearsals...

1 Corinthians 1:1-9Universal

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The Last Song Margaret Ever Sang

Margaret Ellison was eighty-three when the hospice nurse told her family to gather. Her lungs were failing. Her body was shutting down. But when her...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

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Wesley's Funeral Sermon

In 1770, George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and the question arose: who would preach his funeral sermon in London? The answer surprised nearly everyone....

1 Corinthians 1:10-18Universal

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Wilberforce and the Forty-Six Year Calling

In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat at an oak desk in his London home and scribbled five words in his...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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The Bible That Took a Hundred Hands

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a desk in Cologne, Germany, translating the New Testament into English for the first time from the original Greek....

1 Corinthians 3:1-9Universal

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The Hundred-Year Prayer of Herrnhut

In 1727, a small community of Moravian refugees living on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate in Herrnhut, Germany, was fracturing. Czechs, Germans, and Poles —...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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The Kidney That Changed Everything

In 2019, Marcus Rivera of San Antonio nearly died waiting for a kidney. When his coworker, a single mother named Dana Wilkins, quietly got tested...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Forty Feet Beneath the East River

When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, the most critical work happened where no one could see it. Workers descended into...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

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The Graves That Face the Morning

Walk through the old churchyard at First Presbyterian in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where tombstones date back to 1664. Notice something peculiar: nearly every grave faces...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters from Tegel Prison

In the spring of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and locked in Tegel military prison in Berlin. He had every reason to...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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The Lung Transplant on the Fourth Floor

In 2019, a thirty-one-year-old teacher named Marcus Reed received a double lung transplant at Duke University Hospital. The donor was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore who...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Monument That Had to Start Over Underground

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...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

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The Uneducated Shoe Salesman Who Shook Two Continents

Dwight L. Moody never graduated from the fifth grade. When he first applied to join Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston in 1855, the deacons...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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