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Esther Esther was queen of Persia during the reign of Xerxes I (486–465 BC). She was a woman of the Diaspora (“scattering”), descended from Jews who had been scattered among the nations at the time of the Exile.
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Xerxes I Xerxes I, who reigned over the Persian Empire from 486 to 465 BC, was the son and successor of Darius I (Hystaspes).
When the king commanded his servants to show reverence to Haman, he required them to acknowledge the minister as a god-representative, reflecting divine honor upon the monarch himself.
On September 20, 1973, twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean King walked into the Houston Astrodome to face fifty-five-year-old Bobby Riggs before 30,472 spectators and an estimated 90...
On October 9, 2012, a masked Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and shot fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head. The bullet...
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
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...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
In 1943, Irena Sendler worked as a social worker in Warsaw, carrying a special permit that allowed her to enter the Jewish ghetto to inspect...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at the Montgomery Fair department...
In 1943, Irena Sendler worked as a nurse in the Warsaw Public Health Department. The Nazis had sealed 400,000 Jewish families behind the ghetto walls,...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...
On September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the German roundup he knew was coming. While...
In December 1942, Corrie ten Boom's father Casper answered a knock at their door in Haarlem, Netherlands. A frightened Jewish woman stood on the step,...
In 1942, Irena Sendler was a social worker in Warsaw with a permit to enter the Jewish Ghetto to inspect for typhus. She could have...
In 1943, Corrie ten Boom stood in the hallway of her family's narrow house on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. Her father Casper had just...
Teaching on Fasting from Tertullian: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community
God of purpose, today I step into new work. New responsibilities. New relationships. New challenges. I'm grateful and nervous all at once. Help me remember that this work is more than a paycheck— it's a calling, an offering, a chance to serve.