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A Theologian Met God on a Park Bench Reading the Psalms
Berlinยท 1932
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, already an ordained pastor and published theologian, was reading the Psalms on a park bench one afternoon when familiar words...
A Father Read the Bible Every Night โ His Family Saved 800 Lives
Haarlemยท 1944
Dutch watchmaker Casper ten Boom read the Bible to his children nightly for decades.
She Died When He Was 7 โ Her Words Saved Him in a Storm 20 Years Later
North Atlantic Oceanยท 1748
Elizabeth Newton taught her son John Scripture and hymns before dying of tuberculosis when he was 7.
Eliza Spurgeon: A Mother's Prayer That Haunted Her Children Into Faith
Essexยท 1840s
Eliza Spurgeon lost 9 of 17 children yet faithfully read Scripture every Sunday evening and prayed fierce prayers over her surviving eight.
Two Friends, One Garden, and a Voice That Said "Pick It Up and Read"
Milanยท 386 AD
Augustine wept under a fig tree in Milan, heard "Tolle lege," and opened Romans. His lifelong friend Alypius read the next verse.
A Shelter in Switzerland
Huรฉmozยท 1950s
Francis Schaeffer's journey from agnosticism to faith through Bible study led to founding L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, a refuge where intellectual...
C.S. Lewis: From Atheism to Faith
Belfastยท 1929-1931
C.S. Lewis transformed from a bitter atheist to one of Christianity's most influential voices after conversations with J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford.
William Cowper - From Despair to the Light of Christ
St Albansยท 1764
In 1764, poet William Cowper found faith while reading Romans in a mental asylum after three suicide attempts. He later wrote beloved hymns with John Newton.
Anne Askew: The Woman Who Would Not Recant
Londonยท 1546
Anne Askew, a 16th-century English Protestant woman, endured torture and execution rather than deny her faith, becoming the only woman recorded to be...
Macrina the Younger: The Teacher of Saints
Cappadocia (modern Turkey)ยท AD 350
Macrina the Younger shaped three great theologians of the early church through her profound faith. Her brothers Basil and Gregory called her their teacher.
I Love Idi Amin: Festo Kivengere's
Kigeziยท 1936-1988
Ugandan Bishop Festo Kivengere chose radical forgiveness over bitterness when dictator Idi Amin murdered his friend Archbishop Janani Luwum, writing 'I...
Argula von Grumbach
Bavariaยท 1523
In 1523 Bavaria, noblewoman Argula von Grumbach defied university theologians by publishing groundbreaking theological writings defending Lutheran...
