{"product_id":"courage-to-stand-across-the-ages-9781971557038","title":"Courage to Stand: Across the Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat would you do if speaking the truth cost you everything?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen men and women across twenty centuries faced that question-and their answers changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou'll smell the smoke at Constance as Huss burns. Feel the spray of the Atlantic as the Puritans cross. Hear the dogs tracking Tubman through Maryland swamps. Touch the rough wood of More's scaffold. Stand in the starvation bunker with Kolbe. This is history you don't just read-you experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Roman prisons to Nazi death camps, from medieval scaffolds to modern streets, these are the stories of ordinary people who became extraordinary when the world demanded their silence. Written with lean, powerful prose and cinematic scope, these narratives transform historical figures into flesh-and-blood people you walk beside. You'll inhabit their choices, feel their fear, witness their courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this volume: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANCIENT \u0026amp; MEDIEVAL COURAGE: \u003c\/strong\u003e Stand with \u003cstrong\u003eSt. George\u003c\/strong\u003e as Rome demands his silence. Watch \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Huss\u003c\/strong\u003e face the flames at Constance. Ride with \u003cstrong\u003eJoan of Arc\u003c\/strong\u003e as she hears heaven's call at seventeen. Climb the scaffold with \u003cstrong\u003eThomas More\u003c\/strong\u003e as he chooses conscience over crown. Run with \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Tyndale\u003c\/strong\u003e as he's hunted across Europe for giving people Scripture in their own language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREFORMATION \u0026amp; COLONIAL RESOLVE: \u003c\/strong\u003e Cross the Atlantic with \u003cstrong\u003ethe Puritans\u003c\/strong\u003e in leaky ships bound for an uncertain shore. Labor with \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Wilberforce\u003c\/strong\u003e through eighteen years of parliamentary battles to end the slave trade. Move through darkness with \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Tubman\u003c\/strong\u003e as she risks everything nineteen times to lead her people to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEFYING THE REICH: \u003c\/strong\u003e Plot with \u003cstrong\u003eDietrich Bonhoeffer\u003c\/strong\u003e in the German resistance. Stand in line at Auschwitz as \u003cstrong\u003eMaximilian Kolbe\u003c\/strong\u003e volunteers to die for a stranger. Hide Jews with \u003cstrong\u003eCorrie ten Boom\u003c\/strong\u003e behind the false wall, then witness her impossible forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMODERN WITNESSES: \u003c\/strong\u003e Walk the gutters of Calcutta with \u003cstrong\u003eMother Teresa\u003c\/strong\u003e as she lifts the dying. Write in secret with \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/strong\u003e as he documents the Gulag that will shake an empire. Stand with \u003cstrong\u003eCharlie Kirk\u003c\/strong\u003e as he refuses to be silenced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe truth about courage: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory does not remember the silent. It remembers those who stood when silence was demanded, those who paid the cost of speaking, those who risked their lives for a higher truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese were not perfect people. They made mistakes. They had doubts. They felt fear. But when the moment came, they chose courage over comfort, conviction over compromise, truth over safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou'll close this book changed. Because these stories prove that courage is possible, that faith matters, and that one life lived with conviction can shape nations and awaken souls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is more than history. This is a call. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe question is whether we will listen-and whether we will answer. The thread of virtue remains unbroken from ancient Rome to modern America. Each generation faces its dragons-tyranny, godlessness, corruption, injustice, silence. Each generation must produce those who dare to resist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerfect for readers who loved The Hiding Place, Bonhoeffer, Unbroken, and the sweeping historical narratives of James Michener, David McCullough and Erik Larson.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e212 pages that transform history from text into experience. Fourteen lives across twenty centuries. The courage that costs everything-and changes the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crowned Lion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971557038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Jonathan Tuttle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52873216196789,"sku":"9781971557038","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/courage-to-stand-across-the-ages-9781971557038","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}