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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 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 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 March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis tucked an apple, a toothbrush, and two books into his backpack before walking to the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
On February 18, 1943, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich carrying a suitcase full of contraband. Not weapons. Not...
On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash stood on the steps of Nashville's courthouse and looked Mayor Ben West in the eye. The twenty-two-year-old Fisk University...
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 the winter of 1941, Thomas Merton drove through the Kentucky hills toward the Abbey of Gethsemani, his hands trembling on the steering wheel. He...
Imagine a young woman named Sarah, who stood at a crossroads in her life. She had just lost her job, and the uncertainty of the future loomed like a dark cloud. As she sat in her small kitchen, staring at...
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 1939, Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated contraltos in the world. She had performed across Europe to standing ovations. But when she...
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,...
Imagine a small community of potters who gather each week to share their craft and create beautiful vessels. Among them is an elderly potter named Miriam, who has weathered many storms in life, including the loss of her husband and...
When Joshua heard God say "Be strong and courageous," he stood at the edge of a land that required him to reimagine everything he had...
In Joshua 1:9, God commands Joshua to "be strong and courageous." We imagine courage as a battle cry, a charge into the fray. But the...
Courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it is the steadfast resolve to move forward in faith despite it. In Galatians 5:22-23, Paul lists the fruits of the Spirit, climaxing with *self-control*. This quality is pivotal in cultivating courage,...
Imagine a small, weathered boat bobbing in a choppy sea. The water is dark and tumultuous, and the wind howls around it like an angry beast. But inside that boat sits a fisherman who knows these waters well. He’s faced...
When God told Joshua, "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your...
In the monastery chapel at three in the morning, a single candle burns. The wind pushes through cracks in the old stone walls, and the...
Courage is not simply the absence of fear; it is the determination to act in love despite our fears. This truth shines brightly in the words of Paul, who reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 that love holds the power...
When we encounter 2 Timothy 1:7, we are reminded that God has given us a spirit not of fear but of power, love, and self-control. This scripture calls us to embody courage, especially within the context of community and relationships....
In the lightless depths of the ocean, where sunlight never penetrates and pressure would crush an unprotected human being, something remarkable happens: most creatures glow....
In the winter of 1943, Corrie ten Boom was a fifty-one-year-old unmarried watchmaker living above her family's shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. Jewish neighbors were vanishing...
When we think of courage, it often conjures images of grand acts of bravery, like a firefighter rushing into a blazing building or a soldier standing firm in the face of danger. Yet, true courage often unfolds in the quiet...