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In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Greek scholar with a doctorate in New Testament — did something his colleagues found baffling. He left a promising...
For eleven years, Dorothy Chen stood at the corner of Maple and Third in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guiding children safely across the street. She knew...
In the winter of 1941, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his congregation in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and...
In 1732, two young Moravian men named Johann Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann stood on the docks of Copenhagen with a radical plan. They had...
When budget cuts gutted the arts program at Garfield Elementary in East Cleveland, most of the experienced teachers transferred to suburban districts where the pay...
For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...
In 2019, a registered nurse named Clara Jennings transferred to Ward Seven of Cook County Hospital in Chicago — the unit everyone avoided. Ward Seven...
In December 2022, a Southwest Airlines meltdown stranded thousands of passengers across the country. At Baltimore-Washington International, Gate D7 became a pressure cooker — canceled...
For eleven years, Maria Gutierrez ran a laundromat in East Oakland that should have gone under twice. The margins were razor-thin. A bigger chain opened...
When early Anabaptists were persecuted, the world's logic said: fight back, arm yourselves, resist with force. Their own understanding would have justified violence. But they trusted God's way—nonresistance, enemy love, the cross.
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