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The Hen They Found After the Fire

In 2012, a wildfire swept through the foothills outside Colorado Springs, consuming over 340 homes in the Waldo Canyon blaze. When a rancher returned to...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

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The Phone Call at 2 A.M.

When the phone rang at 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, Rachel Dominguez was grading seventh-grade essays at her kitchen table in Tulsa. The voice on...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

The Woman Who Named Her Own Calling

In the spring of 1843, a former slave named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City carrying nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and...

The Search That Wouldn't Wait Until Morning

In 2019, a three-year-old boy named Christopher Ramirez wandered away from his family's home in Grimes County, Texas, following a neighbor's dog into dense woods....

Five Loaves in a Church Kitchen

In 2019, Maria Hernandez stood in the kitchen of Grace Community Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, staring at two casserole dishes and a slow cooker of...

Luke 9:11b-17Universal

The Old Man Who Lived to See It

On July 26, 1833, a frail and nearly blind William Wilberforce lay in his bed on Cadogan Place, London. For forty-six years he had fought...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

A Voice Restored in Ward 7B

In 2019, speech therapist Maria Gutierrez worked with a patient at Houston Methodist Hospital — a retired schoolteacher named Harold Owens who hadn't spoken in...

The Voice That Broke a Long Silence

In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling...

The Pardon That Walked Through the Door

On January 10, 2023, Anthony Ray Hinton walked into a church in Birmingham, Alabama, and told his story. He had spent nearly thirty years on...

Luke 4:14-21Universal

The Message From 240 Feet Below

On a July night in 2002, nine families huddled outside a pasture in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, waiting for news they feared would never come. Their...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

One More From the Ridge

On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop a jagged escarpment on Okinawa that soldiers had grimly nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge. His company...

The Telegram That Ended the Longest Night

On May 8, 1945, a Western Union operator named Elizabeth Phillips sat at her switchboard in a small Missouri telegraph office when the message clattered...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

Breaking Through Every Channel

On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice came over the radio for the very first time. Across the Pacific theater, American soldiers in foxholes and...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

The Name That Broke the Silence

In 1505, Martin Luther's father Hans had mapped out his son's entire future. Martin would study law, rise in society, and bring honor to the...

The Parlor Maid Who Crossed the Mountains

In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — short, uneducated, and utterly unremarkable by the world's standards. When she applied to the...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

The Midwife Who Knew

In 2014, a retired midwife named Margaret Abrams sat in a church pew in Bristol, England, and watched a young couple carry their newborn son...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

The Sunday School Teacher Who Almost Turned Back

On a spring day in 1855, Edward Kimball walked the streets of Boston with a single purpose — to find a young shoe clerk named...

The Unsigned Lease

In 2019, twenty-three-year-old Desiree Martinez sat in a county social worker's office in Bakersfield, California, staring at a manila folder. Inside were the records of...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

The Night Sewn Into His Coat

On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

The Man Who Turned Back on the Ice

On a bitter winter day in 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems squeezed through the window of his prison cell in Asperen, Holland. He...

Luke 6:27-38Universal

The Unpacked Crates of San Simeon

William Randolph Hearst spent decades amassing one of the largest private art collections in history. From his castle perched above the California coastline, the newspaper...

Luke 12:13-21Universal

The Voice in the Ravine

In March of 2019, search and rescue volunteer Dale Hitchens spent fourteen hours combing the hills outside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, looking for a seventy-three-year-old woman named...

The Name on the Bracelet

When Maria Santos gave birth to her son at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the nurses handed her a tiny plastic bracelet. On...

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