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For centuries, smallpox terrorized the world. In eighteenth-century England, doctors practiced variolation — deliberately infecting patients with a mild strain of the disease, hoping to...
In 1883, Pandita Ramabai stood before the faculty at Cheltenham Ladies' College in England, a world away from everything she had known. Born into a...
In 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, burst through every barrier the city had built over centuries. Floodwaters did not check credentials at the...
If you visit the Art Institute of Chicago, you will find yourself standing before Georges Seurat's masterpiece, *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La...
In 2016, a custodian named Srinivasa at a research facility in Bangalore, India, noticed a whiteboard equation that professors had struggled with for weeks. He...
In 2019, a nurse named Marcus and his wife Elaine in Memphis, Tennessee, were finishing a quiet dinner when a social worker called. A newborn...
During her third-year clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anita Patel pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
On a warm Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them...
In the dim room of a prenatal clinic, a technician presses the ultrasound wand against a young mother's abdomen. The screen shows grey static, formless...
Rosa Gutierrez walked three blocks to the bus stop every morning with her Bible tucked under her arm — not in a bag, not covered...
In 1964, two radio astronomers at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — pointed a massive horn-shaped antenna toward...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York, watching the German coastline disappear. Friends had arranged a...
In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. What makes the basilica astonishing is not just its beauty but its...
In 2019, nine-year-old Alma Deutscher performed her own full-length opera, *Cinderella*, at the Vienna Casino before a packed house. Her parents, both amateur musicians in...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, there is a scene that every believer should carry in their back pocket. The heroes — Jill, Eustace, and...
For eleven years, Maria Gutierrez ran a laundromat in East Oakland that should have gone under twice. The margins were razor-thin. A bigger chain opened...
In 1881, Sir William Ramsay left Aberdeen for Asia Minor with a single purpose: to prove the New Testament was unreliable. Trained in the finest...
When Sundar Singh arrived at Cambridge University in 1920, the faculty expected little. Here was an Indian sadhu in a saffron robe and bare feet...
In April 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer received a letter that would change his life. He had been safely lecturing in London, building a promising academic career,...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb becomes a dragon — transformed by his own greed when he falls...
In 1980, a team of restorers began the painstaking work of cleaning Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City. For nearly five centuries, candle soot,...
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a search-and-rescue volunteer named Dale Hutchins can identify a lost hiker by nothing more than their footprints....
George Washington Carver, the brilliant agricultural chemist born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, made a habit that puzzled his colleagues at Tuskegee Institute....
When Kara Mullins began training as a search-and-rescue volunteer in the Cascades of Washington State, her biggest challenge was not the terrain or the cold...