This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN in 2015. In 2009, Peter ...

Had people been there to witness it, they might have claimed it came from a prostitute. But they would have been wrong. Very wrong. God came to me and gave me a hug in the form of a little girl. In ...

The other day, on a whim, I typed “Why does God…” into Google to see what would auto-populate in the search bar. Your question, “Why does God hate me?” was number three on the list. And it hit me so ...

When it was finally decided that my marriage was over, one of the worst parts was sitting alone with God knowing that I had let Him down. I’d broken a covenant made before Him. Feeling all the shame, ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. I had not hugged a friend or a family member, save for my husband, for more ...