ODB: Strength from Struggle

Jess was getting on in years when he first heard the children’s folktale about the boy and the butterfly.

ODB: The Unnamed Women

After wiping down tables with disinfectant, Shelia stooped to tie a garbage bag filled with used cups and plates.

ODB: God’s Undeniable Power

When the Transit Agency of Central Kentucky (TACK) renovated its headquarters, it wanted to make sure people noticed.

ODB: Refreshing Generosity

An auditorium full of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine listened intently as ninety-year-old Ruth Gottesman spoke.

ODB: Go and Tell of Jesus

As our bus traveled higher and higher on the narrow road along the Andes Mountains, my teammates were busy laughing and singing.

ODB: Faith of Friends

Attending a conference, a woman noticed that her friend—the day’s presenter—didn’t look well.

ODB: God’s Rainbow Answer

Owen was on holiday abroad when he received a disturbing message from a colleague: “The boss is looking to replace you.”

ODB: Abusing God’s Name

The vintage photograph from World War II, taken outside a town’s Nazi headquarters, carries a warning for all of us.

ODB: Missing the Divine

Most people avoided George Chase. He lived in a twelve-foot square shack in the woods where New England’s Pawcatuck River meets Little Narragansett Bay.

ODB: Humble Leadership

My friend Butch Briggs has been the beloved coach for the swim teams at a local high school for fifty-one years.

ODB: Schooled in Love

Woody Cooper stood in the loud mob the day Dorothy Counts, a Black girl, enrolled in his all-White high school in North Carolina.

ODB: Remembering to Forget

Author Richard Mouw tells of a Black theologian from South Africa who struggled with dark memories of life under apartheid.

ODB: Living for Jesus

In 2023, Kenyan police intervened to end what’s being called the “Shakahola Massacre”—in which hundreds died after following a cult leader’s directions to starve themselves to meet Jesus.

ODB: Lavish Love

Todd invited his younger brother Alex, a recent college graduate, to come live with him in the house he’d built.