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In 2011, Dr. Lorna Breen's cousin was diagnosed with a rare abdominal condition requiring a surgery that left a jagged, eight-inch scar across her torso....
In 1917, Frederick Lehman sat down in Pasadena, California, to write a hymn about the immensity of God's love. He composed the first two verses...
In 1874, Frances Ridley Havergal wrote the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved hymns: *Take My Life and Let It Be*. But...
In 1944, geneticist Barbara McClintock stood in her Cold Spring Harbor cornfield and did something her colleagues found baffling. She could identify individual maize plants...
Every autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies rise from fields across North America and fly up to 3,000 miles south to a cluster of oyamel fir...
In the summer of 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York City apartment with a ticket to safety and a heart splitting in two....
In 1967, Louis Armstrong walked into a recording studio and sang *What a Wonderful World*. The timing seemed almost absurd. America was tearing itself apart...
In 2019, cross-country coach Brad Holloway of Shelbyville, Indiana, watched his runner Jenna collapse at mile two of the state qualifier. She had trained all...
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling, heading to her annual retreat. Sister Teresa had served...
In 2019, Kyle Burgess was jogging a trail near Slate Canyon, Utah, when a female cougar stepped onto the path ahead of him. Every instinct...
In 2018, a stranger in Pittsburgh named Angela Clark walked into a hospital and donated a kidney to a man she had never met. The...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow soon after....
In 2019, a hiker named Martin Strel stood at a junction on the Appalachian Trail near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. One path led north along...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, dumping more than fifty inches of rain in four days, Adrienne Davis watched the water rise...
Every cell in your body is under constant assault. Ultraviolet radiation, environmental toxins, even the ordinary act of metabolism generates molecules that damage your DNA...
In 1841, after a decade of caring for orphans in Bristol, England, George Müller made a discovery that reshaped the rest of his life. For...
As I sat in a quiet park one morning, the sun began to rise, casting a warm golden hue across the landscape. I watched as a little sparrow flitted from branch to branch, singing joyfully, seemingly unaware of the chaos...
In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the village of Herrnhut, nestled in the hills of Saxony. Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf...
When a fishing vessel capsized off the coast of Cape Disappointment, Washington, in February 2021, Coast Guard rescue swimmer Chris Dean faced a decision every...
In 1844, George Müller sat at a breakfast table in Bristol, England, set with empty plates and empty cups. Three hundred orphans waited in their...
During the London Blitz of 1940, as Luftwaffe bombers darkened the skies night after night, something remarkable happened in the churches of England. Sanctuaries that...
In 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers — professionals who spend...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament — wealthy, witty, and restless. He had everything London's high society could...
When Bart Millard was growing up in Greenville, Texas, his father Arthur was a man ruled by rage. The beatings were frequent. The fear was...