77 illustrations referencing 1 Samuel
In December 1785, twenty-five-year-old William Wilberforce knocked on the door of an aging clergyman in London, unsure why he had come. He had been a...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York City with every reason to stay. Friends had arranged a safe teaching position at Union Theological...
In 2010, when a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. David Vanderpool arrived at a makeshift clinic with almost nothing. No electricity. No sterile operating...
In a small roastery in Portland, Oregon, twenty-three-year-old Mateo Reyes stood over a drum roaster for the first time, overwhelmed by heat and noise. His...
Marcus Chen had walked the trails of Cuyahoga Valley National Park dozens of times with his headphones in. When his retired neighbor, Dorothy, invited him...
In 1944, a young French nurse named Geneviève de Galard walked into a field hospital in Indochina carrying nothing but a medical bag and a...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old English girl sitting in the garden at Embley Park recorded four words in her diary that would alter the...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor, convinced he needed to leave Parliament and enter the...
In Diamond, Missouri, around 1874, a frail orphan boy named George Washington Carver wandered the woods behind the Carver farm, whispering to sickly plants. Neighbors...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of Embley Park in Hampshire, England, heard something she could only describe as "God...
In January 1736, a violent storm battered the ship carrying John Wesley to the Georgia colony. While English passengers screamed in terror, a group of...
In 2019, a pediatric nurse named Clara Mendes in São Paulo, Brazil, kept waking at 3 a.m. with the same persistent thought: check on the...
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden, torn between the life he had been living...
In the apiaries outside Asheville, North Carolina, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Whitfield spent her first summer as an apprentice beekeeper convinced she would never...
In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was scrubbing floors in a London townhouse when something she could not name kept pulling at her heart. She had no...
In 1963, a young woman named Doris Tanner worked the overnight switchboard at a small hospital in Abilene, Texas. Most operators dreaded the graveyard shift...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor in Hampshire, England, and heard what she could only describe as the voice...
In 1987, a sixteen-year-old named Marcus Chen began apprenticing under piano tuner Walter Kraus in Portland, Oregon. Walter would strike two notes simultaneously and ask,...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
When Marcus and Alicia brought their daughter home from Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, the apartment felt impossibly quiet — until 2 a.m. The baby cried,...
In the autumn of 1785, twenty-five-year-old William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor, wrestling with a voice he could not quite...
At 5:51 a.m. on September 14, 2015, a faint chirp appeared on the detectors at LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — in Livingston,...
Mary McLeod was ten years old, picking cotton alongside her parents in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1885. She could not read a single word. But...