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When Marcus Thompson showed up for his first day at the Midnight Basketball League in Southeast Washington, D.C., he expected drills and wind sprints. Instead,...
In 1999, Kevin Duffus interviewed one of the last living lighthouse keepers from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The old keeper described his nightly routine with...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the ancient tree-creatures called Ents have a saying that stops Pippin cold: "I am not going to be hasty."...
Hannah was a single mother in our community, raising her young son alone. Life had dealt her a tough hand—job loss, health issues, and a constant struggle to make ends meet. Yet, every Sunday, she brought her son to church,...
In rural Appalachia, old homesteads still have cast-iron hand pumps standing over deep wells. Anyone who has used one knows the frustrating secret: you cannot...
Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a coal mining town so small it barely appeared on maps. He was the youngest of...
When journalist Sarah Bessey's daughter was born premature at a hospital in Abbotsford, British Columbia, the NICU nurses told her something she never forgot. They...
Deep inside a mountain on a remote Norwegian island, 800 miles from the North Pole, sits the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Opened in 2008, it...
Margaret Chen spent every Tuesday morning for eleven years visiting Ward 7 of St. Luke's Hospital in Houston. She read psalms to patients, held hands...
When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings drove fourteen hours from Indianapolis with a truck full of chainsaws, tarps,...
In 2010, a border collie named Keno worked with Montana Search and Rescue, covering terrain no human team could manage alone. When a twelve-year-old boy...
Every Saturday morning, Rosa Gutierrez set up her stand at the Maple Street farmers' market in Topeka, Kansas. She sold tamales — handmade, wrapped in...
In 2019, Japanese ceramic artist Takahiro Kondo was demonstrating his craft at a workshop in Portland, Oregon. He had been shaping a wide, shallow bowl...
In the autumn of 1527, the bubonic plague swept through Wittenberg. Families fled the city in terror. The university relocated. Yet Martin Luther refused to...
In 2019, a retired postal worker named Ruth Hadley set out to walk every single street in her hometown of Coventry, England. Not for exercise...
In our journey of faith, we often find ourselves in turbulent waters, much like our ancestors who faced tyrannical powers that sought to suppress justice and compassion. Picture the vibrant streets of Selma, Alabama, in March 1965. The air was...
In the winter of 1865, William Booth walked through the Whitechapel district of East London and couldn't shake what he saw. The gin-soaked streets were...
In our increasingly diverse world, the call for Interfaith Dialogue can feel overwhelming, much like the moment when Peter stood on the rooftop in Joppa, contemplating his vision of a sheet filled with unclean animals. The tension between his traditional...
In June 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach crawled into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand for a...
In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful wander off the path and are captured by Giant Despair, who locks them in...
In the autumn of 1939, King George VI sat in Buckingham Palace facing a microphone he dreaded. Britain had just declared war on Germany. The...
On a crisp autumn morning, Sophia, a high school senior, found herself grappling with the weight of her future. College applications loomed over her like a dark cloud, casting doubts about her abilities and her self-worth. In her heart, she...
When a thirteen-year-old Boy Scout named David Ralston wandered off trail in Colorado's San Juan Mountains in 2019, his scoutmaster radioed for help before sundown....
In the heart of the mountains, where soaring peaks kiss the sky, there sits a hidden valley—a place where the whispers of creation are palpable. One chilly morning, I found myself wandering down a narrow path, surrounded by trees that...