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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 March 20, 1852, the Boston firm of John P. Jewett published a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle...
On January 6, 1850, a fifteen-year-old boy named Charles Spurgeon trudged through a blizzard in Colchester, England. He had been visiting churches for months, searching...
In January 1938, entertainer Eddie Cantor went on the radio and asked Americans to mail a single dime to President Roosevelt at the White House...
In October 1987, a lightning strike burned Harold Keim's dairy barn to the ground in Holmes County, Ohio. Forty-two Amish families showed up before dawn...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and made an announcement that would alter the course...
In 1871, a handful of young men and women — most of them formerly enslaved — left Fisk University in Nashville with nothing but their...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean faces an impossible choice. An innocent man named Champmathieu has been arrested, mistaken for Valjean, and is about...
When Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, he stood before the orchestra, guiding the musicians through one of...
In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard made a remarkable discovery in the forests of British Columbia. Using radioactive carbon isotopes as tracers, she proved that...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the orphanage on Sienna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to empty it. Inside were roughly...
In the summer of 1924, Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Scotland's fastest man. The whole British Empire expected him to win gold...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment near the end of the long journey to Mount Doom that has moved...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis tucked an apple, a toothbrush, and two books into his backpack before walking to the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
In August 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers front office and spent three hours hurling insults at him. He...
As a child, I was fascinated by the stars. I remember lying on the grass at night, staring up at the vastness of the universe, feeling both insignificant and yet so connected to the cosmos. I would often wonder, "What...
On November 19, 1969, over 65,000 fans packed Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, buzzing with anticipation. Edson Arantes do Nascimento — known to 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 fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
In March 2022, as Russian missiles struck Kyiv, a young mother named Mariana went into labor in the basement of a maternity hospital. Doctors had...
In the fall of 1979, coach Herb Brooks assembled a roster of college hockey players — young men who, just months earlier, had been fierce...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute,...
On a remote island off the coast of Russia, there lives a monk named Anatoly, whose life seems to dance on the edge of madness. Picture him, clad in a tattered robe, his weathered hands clasped in prayer as he...
In 2014, a Spanish man named Mario Costeja González won a landmark case against Google before the European Court of Justice. Years earlier, a newspaper...
In 2018, a massive dust storm on Mars blanketed the planet so thoroughly that NASA's Opportunity rover lost all sunlight to its solar panels. After...