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On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
In 1901, Japanese chemist Jokichi Takamine became the first scientist to isolate adrenaline, the hormone produced by two small glands perched atop your kidneys. What...
In botany, there is a phenomenon called negative gravitropism. When a seed germinates underground — buried in total darkness, pressed beneath the weight of soil...
When Jesus declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (*John 14:6*), He reveals not just a path to follow but a profound source of courage for our daily lives. This statement invites us to place our trust...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that stops you cold. Jean Valjean has rebuilt his life. He is Mayor Madeleine now —...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...
In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the American women's gymnastics team stood on the edge of history. No U.S. women's team had ever won team gold....
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
As we reflect on Matthew 28:19-20, we encounter what is often called the Great Commission. Jesus commands His disciples to go into all nations, making followers and baptizing them. This directive is steeped in courage, not merely as an act...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and broke baseball's color barrier. But the courage that moment required had nothing...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, Andrew Garfield portrays Desmond Doss, a combat medic who enlisted in World War II but refused to carry a...
On March 16, 1968, twenty-four-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. flew low over the village of My Lai in South Vietnam's Quang Ngai Province. What...
On December 3, 1967, Louis Washkansky lay on an operating table at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and did something no human...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug faced a moment that would define her life. In the women's gymnastics team final at the Atlanta Olympics,...
The Battle of Okinawa was among the bloodiest engagements of World War II. When the soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division finally retreated from Hacksaw...
On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that has moved readers for generations. Frodo, the small hobbit tasked with carrying...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a scene that still takes my breath away. Private Desmond Doss, a combat medic who refused to...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...