Martin Niemรถller was a Lutheran pastor in Germany when the Second World War began. He is immortalized for being the one who said, โFirst they came for the Socialists, and …
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Imagine that youโve just been set free from an oppressive concentration camp. Youโve been ruthlessly worked and have seen friends and loved ones die in the process. How would you …
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Choosing to Stay
Dachau Concentration Camp, 1945. A place of unrelenting suffering and death. More than 25,000 โenemies of the stateโ lost their lives in this hellish place during the Holocaust. Every prisoner …
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Finding Pinky
Where did you meet your spouse? (Fellas, I apologize if I put you on the spot.) Did you meet her at college? Did you find him at church? Elevator? Job …
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โWhen we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.โ
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This Guy Must Really Like Jail
It takes some people longer than others to learn their lesson. Marcus Wayne Hunt is one of those people. For years, heโs been on the wrong side of the law, …
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Saved Again…And Again…And Again
On a snowy February night in 1940, William Millerโs speeding car careened off an icy road near his hometown of Harrisburg, PA. He was ejected through the windshield and landed …
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Sparing Francis
Father Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish-born priest who affected the lives of thousands around the world through a ministry he founded within the Roman Catholic Church. But his real legacy …
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Perpetua’s Persistence
Around 175 AD, a girl of noble descent named Perpetua was born at Carthage, which happened to be the epicenter of Christianityโs growth in northern Africa. Believing Christianity undermined Roman …