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In April 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed in his London home. A stroke paralyzed his right side and, by some accounts, temporarily clouded his mind....
When Marcus and Elena Torres of San Antonio learned they were expecting their first child in 2019, everyone assumed the boy would be Marcus Antonio...
In 2019, a video went viral of a young cashier at a Walmart in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, quietly singing hymns while scanning groceries. She wasn't performing....
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez stood in a hospital room in San Antonio, Texas, holding her newborn son. Her mother-in-law had already monogrammed blankets with the...
In 2015, twenty-six-year-old Stefanie Davis was stocking shelves at a grocery store in rural Kentucky when her phone buzzed. A social worker was on the...
In Advent of 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before his small German-speaking congregation in London and made a stunning claim. Mary's song, he told them, was...
In 1876, a twenty-eight-year-old factory worker named Mary Slessor sat in a Presbyterian church in Dundee, Scotland, and heard a call she could not explain....
Keisha Williams was twenty-three, working double shifts at the hospital in Macon, Georgia, when the social worker called on a Tuesday evening. A newborn —...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, unremarkable in the eyes of the world. When she applied to...
In 2014, Marcus Bridgewater left his corporate marketing job in Houston and did something his family couldn't understand. For three generations, the Bridgewaters had worked...
David Chen hadn't spoken to his father in eight years. The rift started over David's decision to leave the family accounting firm to attend seminary....
In 1843, a woman born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree stunned everyone who knew her. After decades of answering to a name given by masters,...
In January 1958, Elisabeth Elliot packed her bags, gathered her three-year-old daughter Valerie, and flew back into the Ecuadorian rainforest — to live among the...
Maria Gonzalez was nineteen, sorting strawberries at a packing shed in Salinas, California, when the envelope arrived. A full-ride scholarship to UC Davis, pre-med. She...
When the angel announced Mary would bear the Messiah, she asked one question—then surrendered: "Let it be to me according to your word." She didn't understand the virgin birth, the scandal, the sword that would pierce her heart. She trusted.
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