All Testimonies

Showing 241โ€“264 of 1714 testimonies.

Historical

Nicky Cruz: From Generational Violence to Radical Love

Brooklynยท 1958

Nicky Cruz, raised under witchcraft and parental abuse in Puerto Rico, became a violent gang warlord in Brooklyn before Jesus shattered the generational...

Historical

Ruby Bridges: The Six-Year-Old Who Prayed Her Way Into School

New Orleansยท 1960

Ruby Bridges was six years old when she became the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.

Modern

The Professor Who Was Undone by a Dinner Invitation

Syracuseยท Late 1990s

Rosaria Butterfield, a tenured professor of English and Women's Studies at Syracuse University, was drawn to Christianity through a pastor's persistent...

Historical

The University Sprinter Who Would Not Run on Sunday

Edinburghยท 1920s

Eric Liddell, a science student at the University of Edinburgh, refused to run the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics because the heats fell on a Sunday.

Modern

The Girl Who Unlearned Hate Through Conversation

Topekaยท 2009-2012

Megan Phelps-Roper, raised inside the Westboro Baptist Church and homeschooled in its ideology, found her real education through online conversations with...

Historical

The Philosophy Student Who Refused to Back Down

Cambridgeยท 1950s

Alvin Plantinga entered Harvard as a Christian freshman and encountered fierce intellectual hostility toward faith.

Modern

Bethany Hamilton: The Girl Who Went Back to School With One Arm

Kauaiยท 2003-2005

Bethany Hamilton lost her left arm in a shark attack at age thirteen, then returned to school and competitive surfing within weeks.

Modern

The Scientist Who Could Not Outrun the Question

Chapel Hillยท Late 1970s

Francis Collins, an atheist PhD student who became a medical student at the University of North Carolina, found faith after patients challenged his...

Historical

The Teacher Who Chose the Darkest Classroom

Hong Kongยท 1966

Jackie Pullinger, a music graduate from London, sailed to Hong Kong in 1966 and began teaching in the Kowloon Walled City.

Modern

The Chapel Service That Would Not End

Wilmoreยท February 2023

In February 2023, a routine chapel service at Asbury University in Kentucky turned into a sixteen-day continuous revival.

Modern

The Medical Student Who Followed the Evidence

Norfolkยท Early 2000s

Nabeel Qureshi, a devout Muslim pre-med student at Old Dominion University, spent three years investigating Christianity through a campus friendship with...

Modern

The College Visit That Changed Everything

Dentonยท Late 1990s

Lecrae Moore, raised in a turbulent Houston environment, encountered God at a Christian conference during college at the University of North Texas.

Historical

The Most Reluctant Convert at Oxford

Oxfordยท 1931

C.S. Lewis, a committed atheist and Oxford don, was gradually drawn to faith through late-night conversations with fellow academics like Tolkien.

Modern

Mordechai Vanunu: The Whistleblower Who Exposed Israel's Nuclear Program

Israel / Londonยท 1986-2004

Former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986.

Modern

Erin Brockovich and the Hinkley Groundwater Case

Hinkleyยท 1993-1996

A filing clerk with no legal degree, Erin Brockovich uncovered PG&E's contamination of groundwater in Hinkley, California that was causing cancer in...

Modern

Walter McMillian: The Case That Inspired "Just Mercy"

Monroevilleยท 1988-1993

Convicted on fabricated evidence in the town that produced To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter McMillian spent six years on Alabama's death row before Bryan...

Modern

Nadia Murad: From Captivity to the Nobel Peace Prize

Kochoยท 2014-2023

Captured by ISIS at 21, Nadia Murad escaped and became the first person to testify about Yazidi sexual violence before the UN Security Council.

Modern

The Friendship Nine: Lunch Counter Convictions Overturned After 54 Years

Rock Hillยท 1961-2015

In 1961, nine Black students in South Carolina chose jail over bail for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter โ€” pioneering a strategy that changed the...

Modern

Twenty-Two Years in a Wheelchair, Then Someone Said Stand Up

Mobileยท August 2010

Delia Knox, a gospel singer paralysed from the waist down since a 1987 car accident, stood and walked for the first time in twenty-two years during a...

Historical

The Sikh Who Walked Barefoot Through the Himalayas Because He Couldn't Not Go

Himalayan Passesยท 1905-1929

Sundar Singh, a former Sikh who burned a Bible at fourteen, became a barefoot sadhu who walked tens of thousands of miles through the Himalayan passes for...

Historical

Three Hundred Orphans, Empty Plates, and the Man Who Set the Table Anyway

Bristolยท 1840s-1890s

George Muller, who ran orphanages in Bristol without ever asking for money, instructed his staff to set tables with empty plates for 300 orphans when...

Historical

A Treasury Official Stops His Chariot and Gets Into Unknown Water

Road from Jerusalem to Gazaยท c. AD 34

A high-ranking Ethiopian treasury official, permanently excluded from full religious participation because he was a eunuch, encountered Philip on the road...

Modern

The Prisoner Who Walked Out of a Maximum Security Prison on Broken Legs

Zhengzhouยท May 1997

Brother Yun, imprisoned in China's Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison with documented broken legs, walked out of the prison on May 5, 1997, passing through...

Modern

Baptised in a Pool She Could Not Enter on Her Own

Marylandยท 1968

Joni Eareckson, paralysed from the shoulders down after a diving accident at seventeen, chose to be baptised in 1968, requiring others to carry and...