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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...
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 March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
There’s a story about a young woman named Tasha, who grew up in a neighborhood where dreams often felt just out of reach. Despite the odds stacked against her, she had a fire in her heart fueled by a faith...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
On May 2, 1963, hundreds of Black children filed out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing hymns and walking straight toward waiting...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal with everything he had trained for on the line. Halfway...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years, survived five...
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to stand. Moments earlier,...
A few years ago, I visited a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. There, I met an elderly woman named Clara. With a warm smile that seemed to light up the dim room, she recounted her life during the...
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
As the sun dips below the horizon, casting a golden hue across the sky, a certain stillness envelops the evening. It’s in this quiet moment, much like the words of Isaiah 40:31, that we find our spirit renewed: "But those...
In 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field as the first Black player in Major League Baseball. Branch Rickey, the Dodgers' general manager, had asked...
A few years ago, a dear friend of mine, Sarah, faced what seemed like an insurmountable challenge. She had been a vibrant presence in our church community, always eager to serve and share her faith. But when her husband lost...
Jeremiah 29:11 offers us a profound assurance: “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” This promise, emerging from...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a moment that redefines what courage looks like. Desmond Doss, a combat medic in World War II,...
On October 9, 2012, a masked Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and shot fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head. The bullet...
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood at the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and refused to step forward. When the...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a scene that still makes me hold my breath. Private Desmond Doss, a combat medic who refused...
When Branch Rickey recruited Jackie Robinson to break baseball's color line in 1947, he didn't ask for the fastest runner or the strongest hitter —...