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In the winter of 1942, when the Vichy government began deporting Jews from France to Nazi death camps, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his Huguenot...
In December 1937, when Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, American missionary Minnie Vautrin faced an impossible choice. As acting head of Ginling Women's Arts and...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
In July 1944, a thirty-one-year-old Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg stepped off a train in Budapest carrying little more than a knapsack and a list...
In the summer of 1943, every British wireless operator in occupied Paris had been captured or killed. Every operator but one. Noor Inayat Khan —...
On the morning of September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the Germans to take him....
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone at his post inside Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet command bunker south of Moscow. Just after...
In November 1944, Adolf Eichmann ordered thousands of Budapest's Jews marched to the Austrian border in freezing columns. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg drove along the...
By the autumn of 1914, Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes. She could have remained safely in her Paris laboratory, celebrated and comfortable....
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
As we reflect on 2 Timothy 1:7, where Paul tells us that “God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline,” we see a profound invitation to embrace courage rooted...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
In the summer of 1973, Soviet secret police hauled in Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, a sixty-seven-year-old typist in Leningrad, and interrogated her for days. They wanted one...
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...
In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Huguenot village tucked into...
Maclaren observes that these two apostles, 'principal members of the quartet which stood first among the Apostles,' needed each other precisely because they were unlike.
By the autumn of 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was the last British wireless operator still transmitting from Nazi-occupied Paris. Her Special Operations Executive network had...
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