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In 1855, Edward Kimball walked into a Boston shoe store with a single purpose: to speak to a teenage stock boy about Jesus. The young...
In 2014, a young woman named Priya Chandran walked into a community college writing class in Fresno, California, convinced she had nothing worth saying. She...
In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy opened an envelope postmarked from Madras, India. Inside were nine pages of mathematical formulas scrawled by an unknown...
For three years, Marcus Chen wrote letters to his estranged daughter, Lily, after she moved to Osaka to teach English. He poured his heart onto...
In 2019, a Syrian family arrived at a resettlement office in Louisville, Kentucky, exhausted from eighteen months of waiting. The father, Marwan Haddad, carried a...
For two years, six-year-old Emma Reyes knew her father only as a voice on a satellite phone. Staff Sergeant David Reyes had deployed to Afghanistan...
In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, England, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, plain in education, with no theological degree and no mission board...
When Dr. Amara Osei arrived in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 2019, the whispers started immediately. A physician from Ghana, practicing in a coal town of...
In 2019, Marcus Chen walked into a coffee shop in Portland for what he thought was a routine job interview. He had almost not come....
When Marcus Chen walked into a small coffee shop in Asheville, North Carolina, on his first day at a new job, the barista slid a...
Margaret Chen had been writing letters to her grandson in Beijing for eleven years. Every month, she sat at her kitchen table in Portland, choosing...
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let a Black...
On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He...
In 1930, a young German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, largely unimpressed. He found the academic theology...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward stood before the China Inland Mission board in London and heard words that stung like a slap: she was too old...
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...
In 1896, George Washington Carver was finishing his master's degree at Iowa State Agricultural College — the first Black student to earn one there. He...
In 2019, a high school volleyball coach in Cedar Rapids, Iowa named Dana Sexton showed up at a middle school tournament she had no reason...
In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Hudson Taylor arrived in Shanghai wearing a black English suit and speaking not a word of Mandarin. The Chinese people regarded him...
Sunlight travels ninety-three million miles through the vacuum of space, and for every one of those miles, it is invisible. No color. No warmth. No...
For fourteen months, the Reyes family in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, lived on letters. Staff Sergeant Marco Reyes wrote home every week from his deployment...
On Christmas Day, 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his comfortable seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the...
In 1929, C.S. Lewis sat in his rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford, convinced that God was closing in on him. He had spent years building...
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