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21 illustrations for sermon preparation
On August 25, 1944, the great bell Emmanuel — thirteen tons of bronze hanging in the south tower of Notre-Dame — had been silent through...
On October 17, 2010, a billion people watched a television feed from the Atacama Desert in Chile. But the real moment had come weeks earlier,...
On August 22, 2010, a drill probe broke through rock at the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, thirty-three miners had...
For nine days, families gathered outside Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand barely slept. Twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their twenty-five-year-old...
On July 2, 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach vanished into the Tham Luang cave system in northern Thailand....
On November 11, 1918, at 5:10 in the morning, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne. But the cease-fire...
On the evening of July 31, 1834, tens of thousands of enslaved men and women across Jamaica gathered in churches, chapels, and open hillsides. They...
On the morning of May 5, 1945, a young Dutch resistance courier named Ada pedaled her battered bicycle through the streets of Leidschendam, a town...
On the night of July 31, 1838, thousands of formerly enslaved men and women packed into churches across Jamaica. For four years they had endured...
On the evening of December 31, 1862, three thousand people packed into Tremont Temple in Boston. Frederick Douglass stood among them, his eyes fixed on...
In 2017, a young Somali woman named Sahro walked into a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, after three weeks on foot. She carried almost nothing...
On the evening of May 4, 1945, a BBC announcer read a single sentence that changed everything for the people of Denmark: "The German forces...
On August 25, 1944, after four years of Nazi occupation, the first French tanks rolled into central Paris. For a breathless moment, the city held...
In August 2021, when the last American planes lifted off from Kabul's airport, thousands of Afghan families were left behind with nothing but fear and...
When Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico's power grid in September 2017, the island went silent. No cell towers, no internet, no landlines. Three and a...
On April 15, 2019, the world watched Notre-Dame de Paris burn. Flames devoured the 850-year-old roof. The iconic spire collapsed in a shower of sparks....
On New Year's Day, 1863, thousands of formerly enslaved men, women, and children gathered at Camp Saxton near Beaufort, South Carolina. Ancient live oaks trailed...
On Christmas Day, 1989, Romanian radio crackled to life with words no one had dared speak in forty-four years: "The dictator has fallen. You are...
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No....
In December 2016, as Syrian government forces closed in on eastern Aleppo, a young journalist named Lina Shamy recorded a final video message. With dust...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, carrying news that was already two and a half years old. The Emancipation...
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