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Margaret Chen had lived on Maple Street for forty-one years, but she had never once knocked on her neighbor's door. Then her husband died on...
In 1963, a young civil rights attorney named Constance Baker Motley walked into a Mississippi courtroom to argue for the admission of James Meredith to...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, haunted by a devastating puzzle. One in...
In 2018, meteorologist Katie Nickolaou noticed something odd on her monitors in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Barometric pressure was dropping fast, wind patterns were shifting in...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled to Prague instead. What he found in the refugee...
In 2002, three scientists — Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston — received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for uncovering one of the...
In Shusaku Endo's novel *Silence*, a Portuguese missionary named Father Rodrigues faces an impossible choice in seventeenth-century Japan. The authorities have captured Japanese Christians and...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a garden in Milan. Augustine of Hippo had spent years chasing ambition,...
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In 2019, Maria Gonzalez and her three children moved into a Habitat for Humanity home on Millbrook Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over four hundred...
In August 1727, a fractured community of religious refugees gathered at Herrnhut, a small estate in Saxony owned by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. These...
A few years back, I had the privilege of attending a local charity event where a talented artist was showcasing her work. As I walked around, one painting caught my eye—it was a breathtaking landscape. The colors danced across the...
In 1722, a ragged band of Protestant refugees from Moravia arrived on the estate of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing —...
In 1841, George Müller made a discovery that transformed the remaining fifty-seven years of his life. The German-born pastor in Bristol, England, had spent years...
In 2018, a young woman named Maria sat in a consultation room at Johns Hopkins, terrified. She'd been diagnosed with a rare heart condition requiring...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
In 1914, German artist Käthe Kollwitz received the news every parent dreads: her eighteen-year-old son Peter had been killed in the first weeks of World...
In the year 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp into a packed arena. The crowd howled for blood....
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island. Somewhere on that barren...
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment*, a young man named Raskolnikov commits murder, convinced he is above moral law. What follows is not a detective...
Ecologist Suzanne Simard spent years studying the forests of British Columbia and discovered something remarkable. Beneath the forest floor, trees are connected by vast fungal...
When legendary basketball coach Dean Smith retired from the University of North Carolina in 1997, he left behind more than a record book. He left...
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives a mysterious gift from her great-great-grandmother — a ball of invisible thread tied...