Loading...
Loading...
Psalm 118:1-2
1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, For his lovingkindness endures forever.
2Let Israel now say That his lovingkindness endures forever.
340 results found
In 1637, the Saxon town of Eilenburg was a place of unrelenting grief. The Thirty Years' War had driven refugees behind its walls, and plague...
In 1867, engineer John Roebling proposed spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn with a suspension bridge — the longest in the world. Critics...
In 1930, a London parlour maid named Gladys Aylward sat in a small room and wept. The China Inland Mission had rejected her application. At...
In 2008, Norway opened the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a concrete bunker buried deep inside an Arctic mountain on the island of Spitsbergen. Many dismissed...
In 1930, a London parlor maid named Gladys Aylward applied to the China Inland Mission. The board rejected her. At twenty-eight, they said, she was...
In 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake outside Brussels. His crime? Translating the Bible into English so that, as he once...
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. At fifty-six, partially paralyzed from a stroke, buried in debt, and mocked by...
In 1968, a chemist named Spencer Silver was working in a 3M laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota, trying to develop a super-strong adhesive. Instead, he...
In 1863, the United States was tearing itself apart. Battlefield casualties mounted into the hundreds of thousands. Abraham Lincoln — a man who had lost...
When Andrea Bocelli was born in a small Tuscan village in 1958, doctors advised his parents to terminate the pregnancy. They refused. He arrived with...
For decades, the rusted elevated tracks of the High Line cut through Manhattan's West Side like an iron scar. Built in the 1930s to carry...
In October 2001, recovery workers at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath smoldering debris. Eight feet of trunk remained — split, burned,...
In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by fleas, hunger, and grief. Her sister Betsie had...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing...
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig in 1750, the musical world shrugged. Critics dismissed his compositions as overly complex, hopelessly old-fashioned. His manuscripts were...
In 1526, copies of William Tyndale's English New Testament began arriving in England, smuggled inside bales of cloth and barrels of flour. The Bishop of...
In 1464, the Opera del Duomo in Florence commissioned a massive block of Carrara marble to become a sculpture of David for the cathedral. Agostino...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, engineers expected triumph. Instead, the first images came back blurred and useless. A grinding error...
When Gustave Eiffel unveiled his iron tower for the 1889 World's Fair, three hundred of France's most prominent artists and intellectuals signed a furious petition...
In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by hunger and grief. Her sister Betsie had just...
When Hurricane Helene tore through Swannanoa, North Carolina in September 2024, the floodwaters gutted First Baptist Church down to the studs. Mud caked the pews....
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that,...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake near Brussels, his final words a prayer: "Lord, open the King of England's...
Margaret Chen was fifty-three when the oncologist in Portland gave her eight months. That was six years ago. She'll tell you about the morning she...