I slipped between the boulders and descended into the crack. Below me, I could hear my eight-year-old daughter whimpering. The darkness of the cave closed …

Amy Carmichael lay awake long into the night. The pounding drums of a Hindu festival drove sleep from her. “The darkness,” she later wrote, “shuddered …

Stay in China. This inexplicable message came from the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) to Eric Liddell in late February of 1941.[1] He, his pregnant wife …

“I already have one of those,” said the taxi driver when I offered him one of the gospel tracts in my wallet. Since I live …

We’ve all heard of Patrick of Ireland. He lived in the fifth century, wore a halo, and liked picking clovers—the three-leaf kind (four leaf clovers …

Eighteen-year-old Sarah Hall curled up in her New England home, her legs tucked beneath her voluminous 1700’s skirt.[1] Neither the chill of the room nor …

Nelson Knode was supposed to be teaching me trumpet. He did that, and he did it well. But Nelson did so much more than teach …

Being an American in Burma was safe. Until it wasn’t. Being a Christian in Rome was not a problem. Until it was. How do you …

What is the key to happiness? Given his famously morose disposition, you might think David Brainerd[1] to be an odd person to answer this question. …

So what has God taught us in 2020? Here at Rooted Thinking, God has provided new writers, more readers, and fresh encouragement in the face …