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353 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — the brilliant French mathematician who had already invented the calculator and proved the existence of...
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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...
When seven-year-old Maria Gonzalez was diagnosed with leukemia at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2019, her father Carlos did something his coworkers couldn't understand. He...
Dr. Margaret Chen had performed over three thousand surgeries at Johns Hopkins. Her hands were steady, her reputation sterling. But in the spring of 2019,...
On October 13, 2010, the first of thirty-three Chilean miners stepped out of a narrow rescue capsule after sixty-nine days trapped half a mile underground...
For thousands of years, silversmiths have refined their metal the same way. They place rough ore into a crucible and hold it over coals until...
On February 16, 1977, Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum walked into Ugandan President Idi Amin's conference hall in Kampala, knowing he might not walk out. For...
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...
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....
Thomas Jefferson spent over thirty years trying to cultivate European wine grapes at Monticello. Beginning in 1773, he imported the finest *Vitis vinifera* cuttings from...
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 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 369 AD, a devastating famine swept through Cappadocia. Bishop Basil of Caesarea watched the wealthy of his city continue their feasting while peasants collapsed...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris when something shattered his ordinary world....
In 1786, a young cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of Baptist ministers in Northampton, England, and suggested that Christians had an obligation...
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...
In 2011, Ron Finley stood staring at a neglected strip of dirt between the sidewalk and the curb on Burnside Avenue in South Central Los...
Maria Gonzalez had spent six weeks in her evening ceramics class in Asheville, North Carolina, shaping a tall vase for her daughter's wedding. She wedged...
In 1962, a coal fire ignited beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania — a small mining town of over a thousand residents. For decades, toxic smoke seeped through...
In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a cramped storefront at 436 East Mott Street in Manhattan, ladling soup into chipped bowls. She was a journalist,...
In December 2016, after four years of relentless bombardment, the ancient city of Aleppo fell into an eerie silence. Entire neighborhoods sat in total darkness...
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....
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...