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Dorothy Day and the Soup Line on Mott Street

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,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Broadcast From Aleppo

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...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

The Garden on Magnolia Street

In 2019, a vacant lot on Magnolia Street in Newark, New Jersey, was nothing but cracked concrete, broken glass, and waist-high weeds. Neighbors walked past...

Isaiah 35:1-10Universal

The Crack in the Kiln

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...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

The River That Runs Through Centralia

In 1962, a coal fire ignited beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania — a small mining town of over a thousand residents. For decades, toxic smoke seeped through...

Isaiah 43:16-21Universal

When the Lights Came Back to Aleppo

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...

Isaiah 60:1-6Universal

The Beautiful Feet of Galveston

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....

The Runner From Kabul

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...

The Rider Into Galveston

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...

The Rent Receipts in Pastor Linda's Filing Cabinet

For eleven years, Grace Community Church in Tulsa held a weekly prayer breakfast every Wednesday at 6 a.m. They sang beautifully. They fasted during Lent...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

The Cobbler God Kept in His Quiver

William Carey mended shoes in the English village of Moulton, a self-taught cobbler with a homemade leather globe stitched together on his workbench. He had...

Isaiah 49:1-6Universal

The Free Table Nobody Trusted

Every Saturday morning, Maria Gonzalez sets up a folding table outside her bakery on Magnolia Street in downtown San Antonio. She covers it with a...

Isaiah 55:1-9Universal

The Last Shortwave Signal From Bucharest

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...

The Help She Refused to Ask For

When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, Marcus Rivera watched the water creep up his elderly mother's front steps from a live camera...

Isaiah 7:10-16Universal

The Librarian of Helmand Province

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...

The Priest Who Chose the Colony

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...

The Stockbroker Who Kept Silent for Fifty Years

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...

A Story of Kindness - Contemporary Example

In a small town nestled among rolling hills, there lived a woman named Maria. Known for her endless kindness, she ran a modest bakery that filled the streets with the comforting aroma of freshly baked bread. Each morning, Maria would...

Isaiah 40:31Reformed

Elizabeth Fry and the Cold Stones of Newgate

In February 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that would change her life. Three hundred...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

The Nurse Who Worked by Candlelight

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...

The Garden on Burnside Avenue

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...

Isaiah 55:10-13Universal

The Golden Cross of Dresden

For nearly sixty years, the ruins of Dresden's Frauenkirche stood as a blackened heap in the center of the city — a wound left open...

Isaiah 60:1-6Universal

The Archbishop Who Would Not Be Silent

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...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal