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Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor's mistake destroyed her eyesight forever. She never saw a sunrise, never read a page of...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the New Testament into English so...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final...
Every autumn in the forests of northern Canada, the wood frog does something that should be impossible. As temperatures plunge, its body freezes solid. No...
In 1961, when Learned Hand retired from the United States Court of Appeals after fifty-two years on the bench, a young clerk asked him what...
Thomas Whitfield had been ranching outside Amarillo for thirty-one years, and he knew his sheep the way a father knows his children — by sound,...
In the hills outside Assisi, there is a narrow stone path connecting the town to the small chapel of San Damiano. Francis walked that path...
In the year 155 AD, an elderly bishop named Polycarp stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. "Eighty-six years I have served...
In 2019, a marine biology symposium in Monterey, California invited local fishermen to join a panel on coastal ecosystems. Among them sat Carlos, a third-generation...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York City with every reason to stay. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had arranged a safe position...
Margaret Chen had been praying for her neighbor Dorothy all winter. Every Sunday she'd bow her head at First Baptist on Elm Street and whisper,...
On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he...
In Northern California's Humboldt County, coastal redwoods tower over three hundred feet into the fog. But something remarkable happens beneath them. Dr. Emily Burns, a...
Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was scrubbing floors in a London townhouse when something she could not name kept pulling at her heart. She had no...
In 2019, when fire tore through Notre-Dame de Paris, the world watched in horror as the spire collapsed and the roof caved in. But engineers...
When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Rockport, Texas, in August 2017, entire neighborhoods were flattened. Roofs peeled away like paper. Walls collapsed into heaps of soggy...
In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan switched its water source from the Detroit system — clean, treated, reliable — to the Flint River, a...
In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through iron bars. She was...
When Saroo Brierley was five years old, he fell asleep on a train platform in rural India and woke up on a train hurtling toward...
When Marcus Chen transferred to a small branch office in Tupelo, Mississippi, he wanted nothing to do with the town. A software engineer from Seattle,...
In 1899, German archaeologist Robert Koldewey began digging in the Iraqi desert near the village of Hillah. After years of painstaking excavation, he uncovered something...
In the hill country outside Nazareth, shepherds knew a simple truth about predators: a wolf will test a flock before it attacks. It circles. It...
In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...