Looks Good on Paper, Different in Practice
A charity built water pumps in South Africa that were activated by children playing on playground equipment. Sadly, things didn’t work as advertised.
A charity built water pumps in South Africa that were activated by children playing on playground equipment. Sadly, things didn’t work as advertised.
A saint is fed by a magic fish, but when the king’s cook tries to steal it, the fish suffers.
Imagining what it was like walking through the Red Sea for kids and elders, the cynical and the faithful.
Mary Fisher was an illiterate, uneducated 17th century English indentured servant when she heard George Fox preach. As a dedicated Quaker, she called out her pastor, challenged students at a seminary, and risked her life to preach in America.
William Still was born free in the 19th century. He worked to support the underground railroad and recorded the life stories of slaves. Then he met someone he never expected…
While doing post-Katrina clean-up, I saw a church sign that said “Jesus walked on water.”
Anne Hutchinson shared the good news of the Gospel in the mid-17th century even though it was different from the dominant understanding. Ultimately, she was banished.
The history of translation and transmission of the Bible was complex, contentious, and sometimes violent.
In the first thousand years of the church, monks sometimes planted gardens to share treats with visitors. Walafrid even wrote poetry about it!
In the 360s, Basil of Caesara, a bishop, spent his own money to buy food for the starving poor during a famine.