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A Far, Far Better Thing

In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has squandered every gift he was ever given. Brilliant but broken,...

Universalredemption

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The Symphony That Rose from Ruin

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. A stroke four years earlier had left his right side partially paralyzed. His operas were failing....

Universalhope

234 words

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A Thousand Finish Lines

When Rick Hoyt was born in 1962 with cerebral palsy, doctors told his parents to institutionalize him. Dick and Judy Hoyt refused. They saw a...

Universallove

235 words

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The Fingerprints on the Window

When Margaret Chen moved into her first house in Boise in 1987, she spent an entire Saturday cleaning the picture window in the living room...

Psalm 127:3Universalparenting

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Twenty-Six Days

On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton was lying on her surfboard off the north shore of Kauai when a fourteen-foot tiger...

Universalfaith

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The Garden Behind the Locked Door

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's *The Secret Garden*, ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor as a sour, neglected child — unloved and, by her own...

Universaltransformation

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The Unlikely Weaver

In E.B. White's *Charlotte's Web*, a young pig named Wilbur learns a terrifying truth: come winter, he will be slaughtered. He is helpless to save...

Universalcommunity

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A Modern Story of Environmental Justice

In the heart of a bustling city, there lived a grandmother named Ruth. Every Saturday morning, she would rise before dawn, don her worn gardening gloves, and tend to a small patch of earth behind her cramped apartment building. It...

Matthew 6:25-34Anglican

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The Warmth That Saved Them

In 1978, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogota, Colombia. Premature babies were dying. Incubators were scarce, overcrowded,...

Universallove

219 words

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The MVP Who Wouldn't Stay Home

On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente had nothing left to prove. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend had just collected his 3,000th hit that September — a...

Universalsacrifice

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The Long Wait of Tim Duncan

In 1997, the San Antonio Spurs finished with the worst record in franchise history — 20 wins and 62 losses. It was a brutal season....

Universalpatience

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Don't Be Hasty

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the hobbits Merry and Pippin encounter the Ents — ancient tree-shepherds who have guarded the forests of Middle-earth for...

Universalpatience

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Ten Thousand Repairs Before Noon

In 2015, Swedish chemist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had quietly stunned the scientific world. He proved that...

Universalperseverance

242 words

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The Player Who Had the Guts Not to Fight Back

In 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson and asked a question that would change American history. But it wasn't...

Universalpatience

225 words

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Love Written in Your Cells

In 1996, Dr. Diana Bianchi and her team at Tufts University made a remarkable discovery. During pregnancy, cells from the mother cross the placenta and...

Universallove

237 words

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The Gold Medal He Left Behind

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the fastest man in Britain. He was favored to win the 100-meter dash....

Universalsacrifice

230 words

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Five Dollars and Fifty Cents an Hour

In 1994, Kurt Warner wanted nothing more than to play quarterback in the NFL. Instead, he got cut from the Green Bay Packers before the...

Universalpatience

255 words

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The Cells She Carried

In 1996, researcher Dr. Diana Bianchi at Tufts University made a remarkable discovery. She found that during pregnancy, fetal cells cross the placenta and enter...

Universalidentity

251 words

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The Blood That Wasn't His Own

In hematology, one of the most remarkable phenomena occurs after a bone marrow transplant. Once the donor's marrow engrafts and begins producing new blood cells,...

Universalgrace

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The Composer Who Refused to Be Silenced

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His operas had fallen out of fashion. Creditors circled. A stroke four...

Universalperseverance

230 words

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A Far, Far Better Thing

In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but broken, he drinks too much,...

Universalsacrifice

252 words

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The Dragon Who Couldn't Undress Himself

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb turns into a dragon. His greed and selfishness have finally taken outward...

Universaltransformation

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The Butterflies That Trust a Map They've Never Seen

Every autumn, monarch butterflies leave southern Canada and fly up to three thousand miles to a handful of Oyamel fir forests in the mountains of...

Universalobedience

249 words

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The Call You Didn't Have to Make

When Apple released the iPhone 14, it introduced a feature called Crash Detection. Using accelerometers, gyroscopes, and barometric sensors, the phone can recognize the precise...

Universalhealing

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