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Illustrations from Luke

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The Mother on Montrose Avenue

In 2019, a Chicago journalist profiled a woman named Denise Williams who had spent eleven years standing on the same corner of Montrose Avenue every...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

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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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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The Theologian Who Chose to Go Back

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York apartment with every reason to stay. Friends had arranged a teaching position at Union Theological...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

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The Doctor His Colleagues Drove Away

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a startling discovery at Vienna General Hospital. He noticed that women in the maternity ward...

Luke 4:21-30Universal

Devotional

Devotional: Science and Faith

Dear God of all truth, who spoke the universe into being and still speaks in the quiet of a hospital room at three in the morning, I confess that I have sometimes drawn a line between what I can measure...

Luke 6:20-21Roman Catholic

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The Child from the Gloucestershire Hills

When William Tyndale was born around 1494 in the rolling countryside of western England, no one recorded the event. His parents were unremarkable landholders. The...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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The Stranger at Table Nine

In 2019, a diner in Raleigh, North Carolina, called Clyde Cooper's BBQ had a regular they knew only as "the quiet man." He came in...

Luke 24:13-35Universal

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Bonhoeffer and the Church That Split in Two

In May 1934, a young German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped draft the Barmen Declaration, a document that drew a sharp line through the heart...

Luke 12:49-56Universal

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The Weather Station on Grandfather Mountain

In 2018, meteorologist Katie Nickolaou noticed something odd on her monitors in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Barometric pressure was dropping fast, wind patterns were shifting in...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

Devotional

Daily The Bible is Not a Sex Manual

Loving God, You who spoke the universe into being and then called it *very good* — including the bodies You shaped from dust and breath — teach me to read Your Word the way You intended it: not as a...

Luke 6:20-21Reformed

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When Liberation Required Patience

On July 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln gathered his cabinet in the White House and read aloud a draft document that would reshape American history —...

Luke 4:18-19Universalfreedomjustice

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The Casserole on the Doorstep

In 2018, a family in Greenville, South Carolina found their mailbox smashed and racial slurs spray-painted across their garage door. The Hendersons had moved into...

Luke 6:27-38Universal

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The Night Shift That Changed Everything

In 2018, a nurse named Rosa Delgado was working the overnight shift at a hospital in San Antonio when a colleague rushed in and said,...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

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Seventeen Souls in a Welsh Chapel

In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

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The Stone That Didn't Look Like Much

Dr. Helen Pratt spent forty-one years at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California, examining stones. Over a hundred thousand passed through her hands....

Luke 2:22-40Universal

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The First Light Over Tromsø

In the Norwegian city of Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, the sun disappears entirely in late November. For nearly two months, the residents live under...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Blueberry Woman of Route 9

Every Saturday morning in July, Martha Guidry set up a folding table at the end of her gravel driveway outside Houma, Louisiana. On it she...

Luke 6:38Universal

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The Blacksmith's Son Who Became a Preacher

In 1725, the elders of Epworth, England, fully expected young Samuel Wesley Jr. to carry on the family's clerical legacy as the firstborn son. But...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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When Freedom's News Finally Arrived

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Surgeon Who Handed Over the Scalpel

In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

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The Fisherman's Son Who Came Home

Maria Constantinou had not slept a full night in fourteen months. Not since her son Dimitri's fishing boat vanished in a storm off the coast...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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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

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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

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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

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