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All Thirty-Three

On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Telegram That Changed Everything on Armistice Morning

On November 11, 1918, Private Arthur Brooks huddled in a muddy trench near Verdun, France. For four years, the Western Front had been a landscape...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

Application Point

Real-World A Better Political Imagination - Illustration

The content emphasizes the importance of integrating faith into political engagement by reflecting on Luke 4:18-19. It encourages individuals to take actionable steps within their communities to promote justice and systemic change, highlighting the transformative power of small acts of faithfulness in fostering a better political imagination.

Luke 4:18-19Anabaptist

Commentary

Black Church Tradition Lens Commentary: Luke 8:1-3

We read this passage as a testament to the inclusive and liberating ministry of Jesus. In Luke 8:1-3, we see Jesus accompanied not just by the twelve, but by women who had been healed and delivered, such as Mary Magdalene and Joanna. This highlights the radical nature of Jesus' ministry, which broug

Luke 8:1-3Black Churchliberation and freedomthe beloved community

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The Grocery Store at Mile Twenty

In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter was thirty hours into the Moab 240 — a grueling 240-mile race across the Utah desert. Her body screamed...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Peggy's Cove

In 1998, when Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic just off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it was the local fishermen who responded first. They...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

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The Voice in the Hampshire Garden

On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate at Embley Park and heard what she later described as...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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The Watchmaker Who Lived to See the Hour Strike

In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce first introduced a motion to abolish the slave trade. It failed. He introduced it again the...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

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Dorothy Day and the Unwelcome Guest

In 1933, Dorothy Day opened the first Catholic Worker house in New York City's Lower East Side. The dining room had no reserved seating, no...

Luke 14:1, 7-14Universal

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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

Devotional

Contemplating The Peculiar Politics of Christ

Dear God of reckless, boundary-breaking Love, When that lawyer stood up to test Jesus, he wanted a clean answer — a checklist, a formula, a fence around who deserves mercy and who doesn't. But You told the story of a...

Luke 10:25-37Missional

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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

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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....

Luke 15:3-7Universal

Movie Analogy

Jojo Rabbit: Love Is Stronger Than Hate (1 John 4:18)

In the film *Jojo Rabbit*, we meet a ten-year-old boy named Jojo, a product of a world steeped in hate and fear, where he proudly wears the uniform of a young Nazi. His imaginary friend, an absurd caricature of Adolf...

1 John 4:18Universalhatredlove

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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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

Devotional

Quiet Time: We are Imago Dei

Dear God, who pressed Your own image into the clay of every human being, When Jesus stood in that Nazareth synagogue and unrolled the scroll of Isaiah — "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed...

Luke 4:18-19Lutheran

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The Midnight Shift at Jodrell Bank

In 1957, a young radio astronomer named Bernard Lovell stood beneath the massive dish of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, waiting. For years, skeptics...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

Devotional

Quiet Time: Inclusive Language for God

Dear God of a Thousand Names, You are the One whom Moses met in fire and wind, who answered to "I AM" because no single word could hold You. You are the Father who runs down the road to embrace...

Luke 4:18-19Arminian/Wesleyan

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The Girl Who Heard a Voice in the Garden

On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, and heard what she...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

Movie Analogy

The Passion of the Christ: Christ's Pattern of Overcoming - Christocentric (Romans 12:9-21)

Imagine a small, sunlit room filled with friends gathered around a table, laughter bubbling over as they share stories over a hearty meal. Among them is a woman named Ruth, whose laughter is infectious. But her joy is shadowed by...

Romans 12:9-21ChristocentricChrist's patternfollowing Jesus

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Evening Prayer: Technology and Human Connection

Lord, at the close of this day I lay my phone face-down on the nightstand and open my hands to You. I scrolled past fourteen faces today — a former classmate battling cancer, a neighbor asking for meal-train volunteers, a...

Luke 6:20-21Missional

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The Birdwatcher Who Waited Forty Years

In 1953, a young ornithologist named Don Merton traveled to Big South Cape Island off the coast of New Zealand to document a bird most...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

Devotional

Morning Meditation: Immigration and Welcome

Lord of every exile and every homecoming, When Jesus stood in the Nazareth synagogue and unrolled the scroll of Isaiah, He did not speak in abstractions. He named the poor. He named the captive. He named the brokenhearted. And then...

Luke 4:18-19Anabaptist

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