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Margaret Holloway kept her porch light on during every storm. Her grandchildren knew this. When thunder cracked over their neighborhood in Joplin, Missouri, and the...
On August 14, 2003, Maria Gonzalez was climbing the stairs to her fourteenth-floor apartment in the Bronx when every light in the building went dark....
In 2019, a Marine named David Thomas, stationed at Camp Lejeune, learned his wife was expecting their first child. That evening, he opened a leather...
On the morning of May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer four-hundred-foot cliff the...
In 1957, a young radio astronomer named Bernard Lovell stood beneath the massive dish of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, waiting. For years, skeptics...
Robert Robinson was twenty-two years old when he wrote the words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. It was 1757, and...
A missionary observed: in every culture, the fruit of the Spirit is recognized as beautiful. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness—these translate. Cultures may differ on what's intelligent or successful, but everyone recognizes genuine love.
On April 14, 1935, the residents of Boise City, Oklahoma, watched the horizon disappear. A wall of black dust three thousand feet high rolled across...
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce first introduced a motion to abolish the slave trade. It failed. He introduced it again the...
In 2015, a young woman named Farah arrived at a refugee processing center in Berlin, clutching a worn Syrian passport. She had walked across four...
In 2018, Thai Navy SEAL Saman Kunan volunteered for the rescue mission at Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Twelve boys and their soccer coach...
In 2018, a Nashville courtroom fell silent as former police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, a man she shot in his...
In 1686, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of French Huguenots were arrested for refusing to abandon their Protestant faith. Hundreds were...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing...
In December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on a million-mile journey into deep space. Months later, NASA released its first...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, engineers expected triumph. Instead, the first images came back blurred and useless. A grinding error...
In 1838, George Müller sat at a long wooden table in his Bristol orphanage with three hundred children. The plates were empty. The cupboards held...
In the years before the Nazi occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's father Caspar kept an open home above their small watchmaking shop on Barteljorisstraat...
In 2007, pediatric surgeon Dr. Catherine Musau stood in a poorly lit operating room in Kijabe, Kenya, staring at a newborn with a congenital defect...
In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish uncovered before going on vacation. When he returned to his lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London,...
Maria Vargas works the overnight shift in the laundry facility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She folds fitted sheets with mechanical precision, sorts surgical...
When Gustave Eiffel unveiled his iron tower for the 1889 World's Fair, three hundred of France's most prominent artists and intellectuals signed a furious petition...
In February of 155 AD, Roman soldiers came for Polycarp, the aged bishop of Smyrna. He was eighty-six years old. A student of the Apostle...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in prison, reduced to a number: 24601. When he's finally released, he carries that number...