By CDD Staff The Inner Passage Book cover image Ginna Richards Virginia McGee Richards stumbled upon a hidden chapter of American history while taking a dip in a canal near her Charleston home, igniting a 15-year quest that birthed The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway. This 300-mile network of colonial-era canals, carved from Charleston to St. Augustine, Florida, by enslaved Africans and Indigenous laborers wielding shovels and axes, doubled as a...

By Patra Ann Taylor Franklin Graham (through interpreter Lokru Mao) told attendees that God sees them, even if they are small The relief program called Love in Action was carried out in partnership with local churches and BGEA At dusk, the former airport in Siem Reap, Cambodia, looked less like the site of a mass rally than a gathering place for the hungry, the grieving … and the hopeful. Buses streamed in for hours. Worship music floated over the grounds. Families settled onto folding chairs...

By Michael R. Burgess Objects of the most stupendous magnitude — measures in which the lives and liberties of millions, born and unborn, are most essentially interested — are now before us. When John Adams wrote those words in June 1776, he was not celebrating. He was reckoning. The men gathered in Philadelphia understood that their decisions would reverberate far beyond their own lives. They were not merely debating policy — they were shaping the fate of a people and the future of an idea....