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The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.
Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”
25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Jozef De Veuster — known as Father Damien — stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla stood on the forty-fourth floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower and did what he...
In March of 1808, the University of Vienna hosted a grand performance of *The Creation*, the oratorio that had made Joseph Haydn the most celebrated...
On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard stood over a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, preparing to do what no...
In February 1944, Nazi soldiers raided a narrow house on Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands, arresting the ten Boom family for hiding Jews. Corrie ten Boom...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood on the Olympic stage in Tokyo as the most decorated gymnast in history — and she walked...
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before a packed concert hall in Vienna to premiere his Ninth Symphony. He moved his arms with...
In 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that ordinary citizens could ask Google to remove search results linked to their name — outdated arrests,...
Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, an immunologist at Ohio State University, conducted a study that should make every congregation sit up and take notice. Her team gave...
When the U.S. Department of Defense decommissions hard drives that held classified information, simply pressing delete is not an option. They follow a process known...
In 2019, a woman named Sara Northrup found a sealed envelope tucked inside her late mother's Bible. It was addressed to her uncle David, her...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood on the world's biggest stage at the Tokyo Olympics — and walked away. Midway through competition, the...
When Michelangelo returned to the Sistine Chapel in 1536 to paint *The Last Judgment* on the altar wall, he was no longer the ambitious young...
On April 14, 2019, Tiger Woods walked up the 18th fairway at Augusta National, leading the Masters by two strokes. It had been eleven years...
On October 25, 1986, Bill Buckner crouched at first base in Game 6 of the World Series. A slow grounder from Mookie Wilson rolled toward...
When Tesla owners park their cars at night, something remarkable sometimes happens while they sleep. An over-the-air software update downloads silently, and by morning, the...
In 1987, a drought pressed hard against the farmland outside Macon, Georgia. Wells ran low. Fields cracked. Most farmers held tight to whatever water they...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes. The blast zone looked like the surface of...
On March 11, 2011, Takeshi Kanno drove to the coast of Sendai, Japan, three days after the tsunami had swallowed his neighborhood whole. He went...
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...
In 2005, cell biologist Jonas Frisen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm made a remarkable discovery. By measuring carbon-14 traces left from Cold War nuclear...
For nearly two hundred years, the Bach family of Thuringia, Germany, produced musicians so consistently that in their region the word "Bach" became a synonym...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues called a waste of time. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny...
In October 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave along the Tennessee River, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him...