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Isaiah 58:1
1Cry aloud, don`t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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In 1889, a young Indian scholar named Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India — a home for child widows whom...
For six years, Susan Albright fasted every Wednesday during Lent. She skipped lunch, drank only water, and spent her break reading devotionals in her car...
Every Sunday morning, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia held a prayer vigil for their struggling neighborhood. They sang. They fasted. They wept at the...
Marcus DeLeon had been a faithful church member for twenty years — never missed a Sunday, tithed to the dollar, fasted every Lent. Then one...
Every Friday, Maria Sandoval packed two lunches — one for herself and one she quietly slipped into the backpack of a boy in her third-grade...
On Christmas Day, 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums of Kobe. The neighborhood...
Every Tuesday night, Maria Santos unlocks the doors of Spin Cycle Laundromat on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis and puts up a hand-lettered sign: "Free Wash...
In 1909, a young Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa did something his professors could not understand. He left his comfortable dormitory in Kobe and...
Every Lent, Maria Dominguez gave up coffee, chocolate, and social media. She marked each day of self-denial on a calendar taped to her refrigerator. She...
By age twenty-nine, Millard Fuller had amassed a fortune. His law practice and business ventures in Montgomery, Alabama, had made him a millionaire. He had...
In 1901, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, needed to send a message to rally his workers scattered across Britain. Telegrams charged by the...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered for...
Every Friday morning at Haley House Bakery Cafe in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, something quietly radical happens. Volunteers who spent the previous evening in prayer groups...
For three years, the members of Grace Community Church in Wichita, Kansas, ran a Saturday soup kitchen. They served meals, took photos for the church...
In 1965, Millard Fuller was a thirty-year-old millionaire in Montgomery, Alabama, with a Lincoln Continental in the driveway and a marriage falling apart. He attended...
By age twenty-nine, Millard Fuller was a self-made millionaire. He owned a mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, a Lincoln Continental, a lake house, and a cattle...
Every Sunday morning, Becca Stevens preached from the pulpit at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville. Every Monday morning, she unlocked the doors of Thistle Farms,...
Every January, Grace Fellowship in south Memphis held a twenty-four-hour prayer and fasting vigil. The sanctuary would fill with worship music, the smell of candles,...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Baptist minister with a doctorate in Greek New Testament — drove his family into the red clay countryside outside...
Every Sunday morning for thirty years, Margaret Chen arrived early at her church in Knoxville, Tennessee, polishing the communion table and arranging the hymnals with...
For three consecutive Januarys, New Hope Community Church organized a twenty-one-day corporate fast. Members posted devotionals on Instagram, gathered for nightly prayer meetings, and journaled...
Every January, the congregation at Redeemer Fellowship in southeast Portland held a twenty-one-day fast. They printed devotional booklets, organized prayer chains, posted their progress on...
Dorothy Chen had volunteered at Grace Community's food pantry every Tuesday for eleven years. She knew the regulars by name — knew that Miguel's daughter...
Every Sunday morning, Dr. Raj Patel sat in the third row at Grace Community Church in Harlan County, Kentucky. He sang the hymns, bowed his...