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Rangers at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky have a tradition. They lead visitors 300 feet underground into a chamber called the Rotunda, where limestone walls stretch...
In 2019, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering her neighbor Botham Jean, a twenty-six-year-old accountant and worship leader she shot in...
In 2010, a young doctor named Paul Kalanithi was finishing his neurosurgery residency at Stanford — years of grueling work nearly behind him, a brilliant...
In 2019, a beekeeper named Sarah Mapelli stood on a stage in Portland, Oregon, with twenty thousand honeybees crawling across her bare skin. The audience...
In 2019, Keisha Dawson stood on the stage at Howard University's School of Divinity, diploma in hand, her mother weeping in the third row. Three...
In 1924, Eric Liddell was the most famous athlete in Scotland. After his Olympic gold medal in Paris, universities and speaking platforms competed for his...
In 1962, a coal fire ignited beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania — a small mining town of over a thousand residents. For decades, toxic smoke seeped through...
For twenty years, the congregation of First Baptist in Baton Rouge prided themselves on their Wednesday night prayer meetings. They fasted twice a month, sang...
In the coal mines of South Wales in 1904, pit ponies hauled carts through tunnels so narrow that miners guided them with a steady stream...
In 1904, in a rain-soaked Welsh mining village called Loughor, a sixteen-year-old named Evan Roberts stood up in a prayer meeting and wept openly for...
For decades, doctors told patients with stomach ulcers the same thing: reduce your stress, change your diet, learn to relax. Millions of people rearranged their...
For eleven years, Maria Gutierrez left her porch light on at 4319 Garfield Avenue in Kansas City. Not because she forgot. Because she remembered. Her...
In the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, a San tracker named !Nate can identify every member of his community by their footprints alone. Not just...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate at Embley Park in Hampshire, England. In her diary that...
In Utah's west desert, miles from anything green, there is a place called Fish Springs. The land surrounding it is cracked alkali — white, barren,...
In 1987, a woman named Dorothy Pennington kept the most spotless kitchen in all of Decatur, Georgia. Her copper pots gleamed. Her tile grout was...
In 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris, a gold medal around his neck, all of Scotland cheering his name. He was...
In 2013, Detroit filed for bankruptcy — the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. But the numbers only told part of the story. Drive down...
In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, a vintner named Rebecca bends down each spring to pick up young Pinot Noir shoots that have fallen from...
When the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, on February 28, 1944, Corrie ten Boom lost everything in a single afternoon —...
In Cremona, Italy, a small workshop still builds violins by hand, following methods passed down since the days of Stradivari. When master luthier Stefano Conia...
In 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems sat locked in a prison tower in Asperen, Holland, awaiting execution for the crime of being rebaptized...
In 2019, Dr. William Matsui at Johns Hopkins watched a patient named Gerald, a retired Baltimore bus driver, ring the brass bell mounted on the...
In 1792, a young cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of Baptist ministers in Northampton, England, and proposed that Christians had an obligation...