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John Wesley and George Whitefield: Friends Who Fought and Forgave
Englandยท 1740s
John Wesley and George Whitefield, two of the most influential preachers in history, maintained a deep friendship despite a public theological split that...
Eric Liddell: The Olympian Who Chose His Children
Weihsien Campยท 1943-1945
Olympic gold medallist Eric Liddell sends his family to safety during WWII and spends his final years caring for children in a Japanese internment camp,...
Susannah Wesley: Raising World-Changers in a Crowded Rectory
Epworthยท Early 1700s
Susannah Wesley raises ten surviving children through poverty, house fires, and an absent husband โ her disciplined kitchen-table education produces John...
R.G. LeTourneau and the 90% Give
Longviewยท 1930s-1960s
R.G. LeTourneau, the industrial pioneer who supplied 70% of Allied WWII earthmoving equipment, gave away 90% of his income โ and became wealthier the more...
He Found God Walking Through a Garden After Lunch
Franceยท 1730s-1740s
Jean-Pierre de Caussade, an 18th-century Jesuit priest, discovered that God was most present to him not during formal prayer but in ordinary transitions โ...
Lilias Trotter: She Heard God While Painting Wildflowers in the Desert
Algiersยท 1890s
Lilias Trotter gave up a career as Victorian England's most promising artist to live in Algeria.
He Found God Between the Potato Peels
Parisยท 1660s-1691
Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century kitchen worker in a Paris monastery, discovered that peeling potatoes and scrubbing pots could be as sacred as any...
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 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 Philosophy Student Who Refused to Back Down
Cambridgeยท 1950s
Alvin Plantinga entered Harvard as a Christian freshman and encountered fierce intellectual hostility toward faith.
Communion Wine in a Concentration Camp
Ravensbruckยท 1944
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom held secret communion services in Ravensbruck concentration camp using scraps of stolen bread, creating a physical act of faith...
Paul Brand: The Surgeon Who Touched Lepers When Nobody Would
Velloreยท 1946-1980s
Surgeon Paul Brand left a prestigious career to serve leprosy patients in India, touching people nobody else would. His service shaped a theology of pain.
