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In 2019, a retired teacher named Margaret Chen started showing up every Tuesday morning at the Eastside Community Kitchen in Portland, Oregon. Nobody assigned her...
In June 2000, geneticist Francis Collins stood in the East Room of the White House and announced that his team had completed the first draft...
Dr. Margaret Chen spent thirty-two years fitting lenses and diagnosing cataracts at her clinic on Maple Avenue in Rochester, Minnesota. She could spot astigmatism in...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small congregation in Loughor and made a simple plea:...
In 1962, British biologist John Gurdon made a discovery that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. He demonstrated that every cell in a frog's...
On August 13, 1727, a small community of refugees gathered for communion in the village of Herrnhut, Germany. They were Moravian believers, exiles who had...
In 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums —...
In 2003, scientists at the National Institutes of Health completed the Human Genome Project — thirteen years of painstaking work to map every strand of...
In 2014, Dr. Paul Farmer — Harvard professor, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and world-renowned infectious disease specialist — was spotted mopping the floor of a...
In 1988, nearly 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park burned. Reporters called it devastation. Ecologists saw something else entirely. Researcher William Romme and his team...
In 1661, a Bedford tinker named John Bunyan stood before English magistrates who offered him a simple bargain: stop preaching and go home to your...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. The Daughters of the...
William Tyndale spent his final days in a cold Belgian prison cell in 1536, convicted of heresy for the crime of translating Scripture into English....
Hannah, a woman of deep anguish, understood the weight of gentleness in a world that often prizes strength. When she poured out her heart to God at Shiloh, her quiet cries were a fierce testament to her faith. In her...
In 2019, city planners in Hamden, Connecticut, nearly demolished a crumbling granite wall along Eli Whitney Park. The stones were uneven, cracked, deemed unusable for...
In our bustling urban landscape, it’s hard to ignore the stark contrasts that define our communities. Picture a sunny Saturday morning in a city park, where families gather for a picnic—giggles of children, the smell of grilled hot dogs, and...
When Johann Sebastian Bach sat down to compose — whether a grand cantata for Leipzig's St. Thomas Church or a simple exercise for his children...
Maria Gonzalez has been a midwife in rural New Mexico for twenty-two years. Every night before bed, she sets her medical bag by the front...
In 1956, a relatively unknown Danish architect named Jørn Utzon submitted his design for a new opera house in Sydney, Australia. The panel of judges...
In a world that often feels divided and chaotic, we find ourselves navigating what I like to call "The Peculiar Politics of Christ." This isn't just an abstract concept—it's a lived reality, one that echoes the struggles of biblical figures...
In the summer of 1727, the small community of Herrnhut in Saxony was tearing itself apart. Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf had welcomed Moravian refugees onto...
There was once a young woman named Sarah, who lived in a small town nestled by steep mountains. For years, she had a deep-seated fear of heights, a fear that kept her from exploring the beauty of her surroundings. One...
In 1935, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau stood in his Peoria, Illinois factory surrounded by earthmoving machines of his own design. He had nearly lost everything during...
There was a time when my dear friend Martha found herself at a crossroads in her life. After years in a job that drained her spirit, she felt unfulfilled and lost. One evening, sitting on her porch with her Bible...