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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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...