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The Blackout on Interstate 10

On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida slammed into Port Fourchon, Louisiana, with 150-mile-per-hour winds. By nightfall, the entire city of New Orleans lost power. Over...

Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20Universal

237 words

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Born Beyond the Dragon's Reach

In September 1939, before a single German bomb had fallen on London, the British government launched Operation Pied Piper — the largest mass evacuation in...

Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10abUniversal

227 words

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The Genome That Refused to Be Junk

For decades, scientists dismissed roughly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk." It didn't code for proteins, so they assumed it served no purpose —...

Universalpurpose

213 words

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The Race He Wouldn't Run

When Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the 1924 Olympics, he carried a conviction that would cost him the race he'd trained his whole life...

Universalobedience

246 words

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The Telegram That Changed Everything on Armistice Morning

On November 11, 1918, Private Arthur Brooks huddled in a muddy trench near Verdun, France. For four years, the Western Front had been a landscape...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

247 words

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The Tree That Thrives on Stone

High in the White Mountains of eastern California, where the soil is almost pure limestone and rainfall barely reaches ten inches a year, stands a...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

224 words

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The Runners of the Western Front

On November 11, 1918, at 5:10 in the morning, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne. But the cease-fire...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

250 words

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The Last Alarm at Station 12

On March 3, 2018, firefighter Captain Tom Royds pulled on his turnout gear for the final time at Kansas City's Station 12. After thirty-one years...

1 Corinthians 15:51-58Universal

242 words

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Science Illustration: Wonder at the Cosmos

On a clear night, I found myself standing under a vast, starry sky, far from the city’s glow. The depth of that darkness was breathtaking—a tapestry of stars, shimmering like diamonds scattered across velvet. As I stared up, I remembered...

Psalm 104:24-30Universal

246 words

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William Wilberforce and the Long Campaign

For twenty years, William Wilberforce stood before the British Parliament and lost. Year after year, from 1787 onward, he introduced bills to abolish the slave...

James 5:7-10Universal

230 words

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Every Flag, One Song

On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

252 words

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The Blind Side of the Finish Line

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal carrying the weight of years of injury and comeback. Halfway...

Universalfaith

226 words

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The River That Brought the Fish Back

In 1858, the River Thames was so polluted that Parliament hung lime-soaked curtains over their windows just to endure the stench. They called it "The...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

230 words

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The Quarterback Nobody Recruited

In 2000, a skinny kid from San Mateo, California sat in the NFL Draft green room and waited. And waited. Tom Brady watched 198 players...

1 Samuel 16:1-13Universal

242 words

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The Night Shift Dispatcher Who Almost Missed the Call

In 2019, a rookie 911 dispatcher named Maria Delgado sat through her first overnight shift in El Paso, Texas. The veteran dispatchers warned her: most...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

243 words

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The Light at Mammoth Cave

In 2019, a tour group descended 280 feet into Mammoth Cave in Kentucky — the longest cave system on Earth, stretching over 420 miles beneath...

Psalm 36:5-10Universal

261 words

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The Capsule That Carried Them Through the Fire

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia hit Earth's atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour. The exterior temperature reached 5,000 degrees...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

235 words

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From Slave Ship to Sacred Song

In 1748, a violent storm nearly sank a slave trading vessel off the coast of Ireland. On board was John Newton — a foul-mouthed, morally...

Universalredemption

249 words

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The 4:47 AM Alarm

Every morning at 4:47 AM, Jasmine Torres's phone alarm cuts through the darkness of her apartment in Queens. She's a trauma nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian, and...

Romans 13:11-14Universal

223 words

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Shackleton's Fourth Attempt

When Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition collapsed in 1916, he was forced to leave twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight hundred...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

236 words

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The Seed Crystal

In undergraduate chemistry labs across the country, professors demonstrate something that never fails to draw gasps. They prepare a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate —...

Proverbs 16:3Universal

224 words

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The Huddle That Survives the Storm

In the Antarctic winter, when temperatures plunge to negative sixty degrees and winds scream at a hundred miles per hour, emperor penguins do something remarkable....

John 13:34-35Universal

244 words

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The Sprinter Who Wouldn't Run

In the spring of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the Olympic Games as Britain's fastest man. Then he learned the 100-meter...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

236 words

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The Cross in the Ruins

On the morning of November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard walked through the smoldering shell of Coventry Cathedral. German incendiary bombs had gutted the medieval...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

229 words