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In the early months of 1822, Denmark Vesey gathered followers at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, opened the Book of Exodus,...
Yet Elohim uses these very obstacles to stimulate human strength and ingenuity.
Pages blur meaninglessly until midway through, when suddenly one beam of light breaks through.
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.
In 1944, the men of the 332nd Fighter Group arrived in the European Theater carrying a burden no white squadron ever bore. Trained at Tuskegee...
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, a Dutch pastor visited the ten Boom watchmaker's shop in Haarlem. Seeing a Jewish infant the family had...
When a neighbor warned eighty-four-year-old Casper ten Boom that harboring Jews could mean his death, the Haarlem watchmaker did not hesitate. "It would be an...
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium not for fireworks but for a farewell. Lou Gehrig stood at home plate, gaunt and...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
On August 28, 1945, in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson and made an extraordinary...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen rescue missions from St. Catharines, Ontario, back into the slave-holding territory of Maryland's Eastern Shore. She had...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted onto the diamond at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball in...
In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone parsonage in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains...
During basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the men of Company B, 77th Infantry Division, wanted Private Desmond Doss gone. They harassed him relentlessly...
On September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the German roundup he knew was coming. While...
On the gray dawn of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt on the wooden floor of Flossenbürg concentration camp and prayed. The thirty-nine-year-old German pastor...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei pressed his eye to a telescope in Padua, Italy, and aimed it at Jupiter. What he...
December 1937. Japanese forces had captured Nanjing, and a wave of unspeakable violence swept through the city. Soldiers moved street by street, dragging women and...
The believer whose heart burns with conviction cannot remain silent—silence would betray the very fire that consumes him.
The king of Zobah bore a name meaning 'Hadad [is] help'—invoking a false Syrian god as a banner against Israel's God.
He revels in knowing their desperate cries to God go unheard.
Does it scorn you for maintaining good works?