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In 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson purchased the freedom of a Burmese slave named Ko Tha Byu. The man was a former bandit from the Karen...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto Molokai, a Hawaiian island that had become a colony of...
When William Wilberforce was a young member of Parliament in 1785, he found himself in spiritual crisis. Ambitious but restless, he secretly began reading the...
In 2018, Dr. Sarah Shin left her tenured position at Georgetown University to move into a refugee apartment complex in Clarkston, Georgia — a town...
In December 1904, fifteen-year-old Sundar Singh of Rampur, Punjab, was consumed with rage against Christianity. Grieving his mother's death and furious at the missionaries who...
Maria Vasquez showed up to the University of Portland soccer tryouts in 2019 convinced she was invisible — a walk-on from a tiny high school...
In 2014, Dr. Rachel Villanueva was performing a routine fellowship interview at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York when a young medical student named Marcus...
Marcus Webb spent three years designing the Westfield Tower, a mixed-use complex in downtown Cleveland. He drew sightlines and traffic flows, calculated natural light angles,...
For eleven years, Margaret Chen wrote letters to her sponsored child, Amara, in a small village outside Kigali, Rwanda. She sent photographs, birthday cards, handwritten...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage traveling through the French countryside with Isaac Milner, a Cambridge professor and old friend....
In 2019, a woman named Grace Chen walked into a tiny coffee shop on Magnolia Street in Waco, Texas, three days after moving from Portland....
At the core of the sun, hydrogen atoms fuse at 27 million degrees Fahrenheit — a violence so extreme that no human eye could witness...
In 1692, a physician named Georg Handel had no intention of letting his eight-year-old son pursue music. The boy was destined for law — a...
In 1885, a seven-year-old girl named Mary McLeod walked five miles each day to a one-room schoolhouse in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth...
In 1896, George Washington Carver was a quiet graduate student at Iowa State, content to tend his greenhouse experiments in obscurity. He had wandered for...
In 2019, a young woman named Cara walked into the public library in Asheville, North Carolina, not sure what she was looking for. She had...
In the autumn of 1785, a young Member of Parliament named William Wilberforce was in spiritual crisis. His recent conversion had left him torn —...
In 2019, Marcus Thompson was a lanky fifteen-year-old shooting free throws alone at a cracked outdoor court in Flint, Michigan. He had no AAU team,...
In 2019, a young woman named Lucia drove her sputtering Civic into a small repair shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She had never been there...
In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, Yorkshire, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a...
In 2019, Marcus Delgado transferred to a firehouse in rural East Tennessee, skeptical that a small-town station could offer him anything after twelve years in...
In 2019, a fourteen-year-old girl named Maya sat in a group home in Columbus, Ohio, convinced nobody was coming for her. She had aged out...
In 2019, a young couple in Asheville, North Carolina, hired architect Dana Morales to design their first home. During the initial consultation, they handed over...
In 1785, a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlor of John Newton, the aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in...
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