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The Invisible Shield Forty Miles Above Your Bed

Every night, while you sleep, the Earth faces an onslaught you never see. Thousands of meteoroids — some no bigger than a grain of sand,...

Psalm 121Universal

234 words

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A Voice Carved from Stone

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and sang to 75,000 people. What most forget is what...

Universalcourage

237 words

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The Neighbor Who Watched the House Burn

In September 1998, a family in Greenville, South Carolina returned from vacation to find their home gutted by an electrical fire. But what devastated them...

Obadiah 1:15Universal

244 words

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The Stump at Ground Zero

In October 2001, workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath the rubble. It was barely alive — an...

Isaiah 11:1-10Universal

226 words

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The Runner Who Finished on a Different Track

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games — a moment immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But Liddell's greatest...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

233 words

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When the Lights Came Back On

On September 28, 2017, Maria Gonzalez sat on her porch in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, staring into a darkness so complete she could not see her...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

240 words

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The Ring Steve Bartman Never Expected

On October 14, 2003, Steve Bartman became the most hated man in Chicago. In Game 6 of the NLCS, with the Cubs five outs from...

Universalforgiveness

238 words

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Thirty-Three Lives and a Thousand Gifts

On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. The rescue that followed became...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

239 words

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The Bird That Flew Without a Map

In September 2007, a bar-tailed godwit known to researchers as E7 launched from the mudflats of Alaska and flew 7,145 miles non-stop to New Zealand...

Universaltrust

250 words

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Florence Nightingale's Lamp in the Darkness

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in 1854, she found soldiers dying not from their wounds but from the...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

242 words

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The Volunteer of Cell 18

In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation. When Sergeant Karl...

Matthew 26:14-27:66Universal

230 words

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When the Marrow Must Die First

In a bone marrow transplant, the most terrifying step comes before the healing begins. Oncologists call it conditioning — rounds of chemotherapy or total body...

Universaltrust

245 words

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The View From the Summit

In 2018, mountaineer Melissa Arnot became one of only a handful of American women to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. She described the moment...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

238 words

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A Clerical Error in Ravensbrück

On December 28, 1944, Corrie ten Boom sat on her thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body weakened by months of forced labor and...

Acts 12:1-11Universal

245 words

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The Note That Traveled 2,300 Feet

On August 22, 2010, a drill probe broke through rock at the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, thirty-three miners had...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

220 words

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When Conscience Runs Faster Than Gold

In the summer of 1924, the world watched as Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell made an astonishing choice. Favored to win gold in the 100-meter dash...

Universalfreedom

229 words

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When the Singing Came Back to Joplin

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. St. Mary's...

Psalm 126Universal

219 words

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The Paper Sewn Into Pascal's Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — sat alone in his room in...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

236 words

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Eric Liddell and the Joy of Willing Obedience

In 1924, Eric Liddell stunned the sporting world by withdrawing from the 100-meter dash at the Paris Olympics — his best event — because the...

Psalm 40:7-11Universal

230 words

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The Ripple in Space That No One Believed

At 5:51 a.m. on September 14, 2015, a faint chirp appeared on the detectors at LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — in Livingston,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

227 words

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When the Lights Came Back to Joplin

On May 22, 2011, a mile-wide EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, reducing entire neighborhoods to bare foundations. Where homes and schools once stood, there...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

237 words

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Modern Examples of A Better Political Imagination - Biblical Analogy

In a bustling urban neighborhood, a small community garden blossomed amid the concrete and chaos of city life. This garden was not just a patch of green; it was a tapestry of diverse lives woven together by the shared hope...

Matthew 22:37-39Missional

287 words

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The Signal That Never Stopped

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 into the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena still send commands to...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

229 words

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More Than the Medal

In the summer of 1924, the fastest man in Britain faced an impossible choice. Eric Liddell, Scotland's star sprinter and heavy favorite for Olympic gold...

Universalidentity

242 words