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Loving and gracious God, we gather before You, bound together in this sacred community, yearning for Your divine intervention in our lives. As we reflect on the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians, we are reminded that love is patient...
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On March 3, 2018, firefighter Captain Tom Royds pulled on his turnout gear for the final time at Kansas City's Station 12. After thirty-one years...
As we ponder the profound words of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, we are invited into a rich tapestry of love that embraces both crisis and hope, reminding us that love is patient and kind, even amidst our most turbulent storms. Reflect...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. Then he discovered the heats fell on...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
Imagine for a moment that you’re in a bustling marketplace in Capernaum. The sun is bright overhead, casting playful shadows between the stalls, where merchants loudly hawk their wares. Amidst the thrumming life of the marketplace, a small crowd gathers...
In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 into the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena still send commands to...
In 2014, a small Baptist church in Macon, Georgia, discovered that the old piano sitting in their fellowship hall was a 1923 Steinway Model B,...
When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in 1854, she found soldiers dying not from their wounds but from the...
In 2014, a Stradivarius violin worth $5 million was stolen from concertmaster Frank Almond outside a Milwaukee concert hall. Police recovered it three weeks later...
Imagine, for a moment, a bustling café in your town, the kind filled with the rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the soft hum of conversation. Now envision a young woman at a table, her laptop open in front...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stunned the world by withdrawing from his best event at the Paris Olympics — the 100 meters — because...
We read this passage as a powerful affirmation of the interconnectedness and unity of the body of Christ, which is a reflection of the African diaspora's experience of communal survival and resistance. Just as each part of the body is essential, so too is every member of our community — we are each
In 2017, crews from two countries began building the Pelješac Bridge in Croatia, a stunning cable-stayed span connecting the mainland to the Pelješac peninsula across...
In 2014, a janitorial supervisor named Hector Vega worked the overnight shift at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had no medical degree, no letters...
On February 23, 1945, a small group of Marines climbed Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag at its...
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards, following brutal protocol, selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...
On April 9, 1945, in the gray dawn at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before being led to the gallows....
In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach were trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Floodwaters had sealed every exit....
In September 2017, three days before Hurricane Irma slammed into Naples, Florida, Maria Gutierrez found an envelope in her mailbox from her estranged father in...
In 2012, cellist Alisa Weilerstein received a loan that changed her performing life — a 1731 Stradivarius cello known as the "Isserlis" Stradivarius, valued at...
Gustavo Gutiérrez defined love as "effective solidarity" with the poor. "Love does not insist on its own way"—this applies to nations insisting on policies that harm the vulnerable. "Love is not arrogant"—neither are liberation movements that honor the dignity of those they serve.
In a small town, there lived an elderly woman named Ruth. She had a garden that was the envy of all, bursting with vibrant colors and fragrant blooms. Yet, Ruth’s secret to her garden's beauty wasn’t just her green thumb;...
On April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as flames consumed the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris. Eight hundred years of history disappeared into...