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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...
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....
There’s a small town nestled in the hills of Appalachia, known for its breathtaking views and the warmth of its people. Among them was an elderly woman named Ruth, who spent her days volunteering at the local library. But Ruth...
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 July 20, 1969, alarms started blaring inside Mission Control. The Apollo 11 lunar module's guidance computer was overloading, flashing 1202 program alarms that no...
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...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat in the first row...
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, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In the winter of 1942, a knock came at a farmhouse door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village nestled in the mountains of south-central France....
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 the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
When I think of courage, I remember a young man named David, who lived in a small town nestled between the mountains. David had always dreamed of becoming a mountain climber, but there was one peak that loomed over him...
In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William walked to an open field on the outskirts of Philadelphia, carrying a silk kite fitted with...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff made a discovery that should change the way we think about difficulty. He found that human bone tissue actually...
In 1612, a nineteen-year-old artist named Artemisia Gentileschi stood before a Roman court. She had been assaulted by her painting tutor, and during the trial,...
On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
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...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....
In 1612, a seventeen-year-old Italian woman named Artemisia Gentileschi stood before a Roman court and endured a brutal trial. She had been assaulted by her...
In 2010, neuroscientist Yadin Dudai and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science made a remarkable discovery about what happens inside the brain when...
On a crisp autumn morning, a small town gathered to witness a remarkable event—the annual pumpkin race. Each participant, young and old, had chosen their pumpkin with care, transforming it into a vessel of creativity and hope. Among them was...
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...
Faith is much like a story unfolding page by page, inviting us into an epic of courage and transformation. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Imagine a...