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In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison in Germany. His crime was simple: he refused to swear an oath...
In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune — the fifteenth of seventeen children born to former slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina — traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida,...
On February 23, 1944, fourteen-year-old Anne Frank climbed to the attic of 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam and peered out through the window. For nineteen months,...
The schedule for the 1924 Paris Olympics arrived weeks before the Games, and Eric Liddell studied it carefully. The 100-meter heats were set for Sunday,...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune welcomed five little girls and her own son into a rented cottage in Daytona Beach, Florida. She had...
On the evening of February 23, 1807, the House of Commons erupted in something rarely heard within those walls — a standing ovation. Members of...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter knelt in Brandenburg-Görden Prison outside Berlin and was executed by guillotine. His crime was simple: he refused to swear...
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 a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn, New York, and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does...
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 early December 1873, Horatio Spafford — a Chicago lawyer who had already lost his young son and much of his fortune in the Great...
On the morning of July 6, 1924, the fastest sprinter in Scotland was nowhere near the starting blocks. Eric Liddell, the flying Scotsman favored to...
In the spring of 1924, Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Scotland and favored for Olympic gold in the 100 meters. But when the...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
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...
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...
Paul (Galatians 3:19) and Stephen (Acts 7:53) explicitly affirm angelic agency in law-giving, yet the Pentateuch itself remains ambiguous.
The early Church was not built by imperial decree or military might, but by the Spirit's power working through ordinary believers.
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,...
In the autumn of 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to aid escaped slaves even in...