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In 1985, Henri Nouwen held prestigious teaching positions at both Harvard and Yale. Students packed his lectures. Publishers sought his manuscripts. Yet he confessed to...
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In 1940s South Africa, a young boy named Desmond Tutu walked with his mother through the streets of Johannesburg. She was a domestic worker, a...
When American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, they expected the prisoners to rush the gates. Many did not. Chaplain William...
Water always seeks the lowest place. It never climbs upward on its own. From mountain snowmelt to valley stream to ocean floor, water pours itself...
In 1986, Henri Nouwen walked away from a tenured position at Harvard Divinity School. He was one of the most sought-after spiritual writers in the...
In 1940s South Africa, a nine-year-old boy walked beside his mother down a dusty Johannesburg street. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were treated as invisible...
Maria Gonzalez has been a midwife in rural New Mexico for twenty-two years. Every night before bed, she sets her medical bag by the front...
In January 2019, David Hernandez got the call at eleven p.m. His daughter Sofia, a first-year teacher in Anchorage, had been rushed into emergency surgery....
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3: all enslaved people were free. The war...
In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240 — a 238-mile race across the Utah desert. But what struck people wasn't the finish...
On October 13, 2010, Florencio Avalos stepped into a narrow steel capsule called the Phoenix, 2,300 feet below the Atacama Desert. For sixty-nine days, he...
In 2019, backpacker Sarah Chen spent eleven days hiking through Denali National Park without ever seeing the mountain. Clouds hung low and thick over the...
On December 14, 2010, miners trapped in the Copiapó mine in Chile spent sixty-nine days underground, surviving on two spoonfuls of tuna every forty-eight hours....
On the morning of April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in a makeshift chapel at the Schönberg prison school, surrounded by a handful of fellow...
For seventeen years, Maria Gonzalez set an extra place at her Thursday dinner table in her small apartment in San Antonio. Every week, without fail,...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old English girl named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden at Embley Park and heard what she described as the...
On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans drove hundreds of miles to stand in the path of totality. In Fredericksburg, Texas, a retired science teacher...
On the night of November 9, 1989, East German border guards received confused orders: the crossings were open. Thousands gathered at the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint...
On the night of April 18, 1775, a Boston sexton named Robert Newman climbed the narrow stairs of Christ Church — known today as Old...
On April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in a makeshift room at the Schonberg school, where prisoners were being held in transit. He knew what...
On the morning of June 1, 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree packed a pillowcase with a few belongings, tucked twenty-five cents into her pocket,...
Dr. Amara Osei still had confetti in her hair from the Emory University School of Medicine graduation ceremony when her phone buzzed at 4:47 a.m....
In 1813, Adoniram Judson knelt on the deck of a ship bound for Burma, freshly ordained and burning with purpose. He had heard the voice...
In the summer of 1680, Scottish Covenanters gathered on a remote hillside near Irongray in Dumfriesshire, knowing that government dragoons were hunting them. They had...