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Thousands of Anabaptists were killed in the 16th century—drowned, burned, beheaded. Their persecutors expected to exterminate them. Instead, the martyrs' courage attracted others. As Tertullian said centuries earlier, "The blood of martyrs is seed." Today, millions of Mennonites, Amish, and...
In April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham for leading nonviolent protests. From his jail cell, he wrote a letter that would become one of history's most important documents on justice.
When Idi Amin expelled all missionaries from Uganda in 1972, many feared the Ugandan church would collapse. Instead, it exploded. Without foreign leadership, local believers stepped up. The church grew from 2 million to over 10 million in the following decades.
John Newton spent years as a slave trader—a profession he later called "a business at which my heart now shudders." After his conversion, those terrible memories became the raw material for empathy, for advocacy, and for "Amazing Grace." His sin...
In 44 BC, a teenage boy named Gaius Octavius received staggering news. Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the known world, had named him...
In March 2012, landscape architect Emily Sullivan walked through the grounds of a Joplin, Missouri, church that had been leveled by an EF5 tornado ten...
In 1963, a young civil rights attorney named Constance Baker Motley walked into a Mississippi courtroom to argue for the admission of James Meredith to...
There was a small, struggling community garden in the heart of our town. At first glance, it seemed like a patch of weeds and broken dreams. But within this garden, a group of neighbors began to gather each week. They...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament — wealthy, witty, and restless. He had everything London's high society could...
In 1963, a sharecropper's daughter named Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention. She had been beaten in a...
In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius received staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world, had named him son...
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