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The One-Eyed Preacher on Azusa Street

In April 1906, a one-eyed Black preacher named William Joseph Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and watched the...

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When the River Jumped Its Banks

In the summer of 1993, the small farming community of Hardin, Montana, watched the Bighorn River swell past its banks after weeks of relentless rain....

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The Grandmother Who Spoke in the Town Square

In 1904, in a rain-soaked Welsh mining village called Loughor, a sixteen-year-old named Evan Roberts stood up in a prayer meeting and wept openly for...

The One-Eyed Preacher of Azusa Street

In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed son of formerly enslaved parents from Centerville, Louisiana — stood in a converted stable on Azusa...

A One-Eyed Preacher and the Spirit That Knew No Boundaries

On April 9, 1906, at a small prayer meeting on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, something broke open that no one could contain. William...

The Rain That Didn't Check the Property Lines

In the summer of 1993, a drought gripped the farmland outside Broken Bow, Nebraska. For eleven weeks, the fields cracked and the cattle grew thin....

The Underground Network That Feeds Every Tree

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the floor of a British Columbia forest. Hidden under the soil, a vast web of...

When the Desert Remembers How to Bloom

In Chile's Atacama Desert — one of the driest places on earth — seeds lie buried beneath cracked, barren soil for years, sometimes decades. They...

The Well That Broke Through Every Fence

In 1904, in the coal-dusted hills of Loughor, Wales, a twenty-six-year-old former miner named Evan Roberts stood in a small chapel and prayed with such...

The Spring That Broke Through Every Fence

In 2016, hydrologists in Edwards County, Texas, watched something remarkable unfold after years of drought. When the rains finally came to the Edwards Aquifer, the...

The Night the Whole Bay Burned Blue

On certain nights in Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico, the water catches fire — not with flame, but with light. Millions of dinoflagellates, single-celled organisms no...

The River That Refused to Stay in Its Banks

In 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, burst through every barrier the city had built over centuries. Floodwaters did not check credentials at the...

The Desert Superbloom

Every few years in California's Anza-Borrego Desert, something extraordinary happens. After a season of unusual rain, the barren landscape explodes overnight into a carpet of...

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Fasting: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community

Teaching on Fasting from Tertullian: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community

Zechariah 8:19Universalseasonal fastingrhythm

Fasting: Leo the Great on the Four Seasonal Fasts

Teaching on Fasting from Leo the Great: Leo the Great on the Four Seasonal Fasts

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Fasting: Chrysostom on Fasting from Sin

Teaching on Fasting from John Chrysostom: Chrysostom on Fasting from Sin