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27 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa packed a single bag and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums of...
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii — a place...
In 2019, a high school English teacher in Nashville named Clara Johnson noticed a student named Marcus sitting in the back row, hood up, headphones...
Father Gregory Boyle didn't march into East Los Angeles with a megaphone. He opened a bakery. For over thirty years now, Homeboy Industries has quietly...
For twenty years, William Wilberforce rose in the British Parliament and introduced the same bill to abolish the slave trade. Twenty years. He was mocked,...
In the neonatal unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, a baby born at twenty-three weeks weighs barely fourteen ounces. Her skin is translucent. Her lungs strain...
Andre Trocme was a pastor in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Protestant village in the mountains of southern France. When the Nazis occupied France in 1940,...
In 1993, shelling destroyed the Stari Most, a sixteenth-century Ottoman bridge arching over the Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia. The bridge had connected the city's...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled instead to Prague. What he found in the refugee...
At the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, volunteers learn a counterintuitive rule on their first day: when a wounded hawk arrives — talons...
In 2012, a young Afghan woman named Sakena Yacoobi quietly opened a school in a basement in Herat. No banners. No press conferences. No armed...
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and children crammed into two wards. The...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and encountered something that would alter the course of his life — hundreds...
In 1889, Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Bombay — a shelter for child widows whom Indian society had discarded. These were...
In August 2014, when tear gas drifted through the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and the world watched a community fracture on live television, the Ferguson...
In 2019, a reporter from the *Dallas Morning News* profiled a kindergarten teacher named Elena Vargas at Rusk Elementary, one of the lowest-funded schools in...
In the autumn of 1938, Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday and traveled instead to Prague, where thousands of Jewish refugee families were living in...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the rocky shore of Kalaupapa, a leper colony on...
In 2010, after the earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, a American nurse named Sarah Collins arrived at a makeshift clinic built from tarps and scrap wood. Generators...
In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry walked through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards look away. Three hundred...
In the family courthouse of Jefferson County, Alabama, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Vance sits on a wooden bench every Tuesday morning. She is a...
In the neonatal intensive care unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, nurse Maria Gonzalez starts every shift the same way. She dims the overhead lights. She...
In March 1841, a young Boston schoolteacher named Dorothea Dix agreed to teach a Sunday school class at the East Cambridge jail. What she found...
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