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The Cure Made from the Venom

At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

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The Heartbeat Against Her Chest

In neonatal intensive care units across the country, nurses practice what they call "kangaroo care." When a premature infant — sometimes weighing barely two pounds...

Hebrews 13:5-6Universal

229 words

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The College President Who Saw the Fifteen-Year-Old Preacher

When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...

John 1:43-51Universal

249 words

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The Heart That Beat Twice

In 2018, a nineteen-year-old college student named Jordan Rice received a new heart after three years on the transplant waiting list at Emory University Hospital...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

233 words

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The Invisible Shield Four Hundred Miles Above Your Head

Every second of every day, a violent stream of charged particles races from the sun toward Earth at over a million miles per hour. This...

Psalm 121Universal

237 words

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The Night Shift Nurse Who Started Over

Maria Gonzalez spent fourteen years as a corporate attorney in Chicago, climbing every rung, collecting every accolade. Partner by forty-one. Corner office on the thirty-second...

John 3:1-17Universal

240 words

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The Bridge Builder Who Never Abandons a Project

In 2011, engineer Linda Figg stood before skeptics in St. Petersburg, Florida, as construction began on the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge approach. Midway through the...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

230 words

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The Substitute Who Walked to the Scaffold

In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but dissolute, he drifts through his...

Universalsacrifice

263 words

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The Pastor Who Called Mary's Song Dangerous

In December 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before his congregation in London and said something that unsettled the room. He called Mary's Magnificat "the most passionate,...

Luke 1:39-56Universal

214 words

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The Astronomer Who Ran Out of Comparisons

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope pointed its lens at a tiny patch of sky near the constellation Ursa Major — a speck no larger...

2 Samuel 7:22Universal

234 words

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The Volunteer Nobody Expected

In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Elena Aguilar sat in a folding chair at a community meeting in Flint, Michigan, listening to officials explain...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

223 words

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TheQueue at Gate D7

In December 2022, a Southwest Airlines meltdown stranded thousands of passengers across the country. At Baltimore-Washington International, Gate D7 became a pressure cooker — canceled...

Matthew 5:1-12aUniversal

231 words

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The Farmer Who Slept Through the Storm

A hiring committee in rural Iowa once asked each candidate the same question: "Why should we hire you as our farmhand?" One man listed his...

Hebrews 13:5-6Universal

241 words

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Newton's Great Recoinage

In 1696, Isaac Newton — the man who had unlocked the laws of gravity — accepted an unexpected appointment as Warden of England's Royal Mint....

Malachi 3:1-4Universal

226 words

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The Sadhu Who Silenced the Oxford Dons

In 1920, Sadhu Sundar Singh — a former Sikh from Punjab who had converted to Christianity after a vision of Christ at age fifteen —...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

244 words

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The Light Before Dawn

In April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photograph of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas...

2 Peter 1:16-19Universal

234 words

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The Deed in the Dresser Drawer

When Marco Alvarez moved into the small bungalow on Sycamore Street in Tucson, he treated it like every other rental. He let the faucet drip...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

234 words

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The Borrowed Canoe at Lake Windermere

Every summer, the outfitter at Lake Windermere in British Columbia rents cedar-strip canoes to tourists. Before anyone touches a paddle, old Tom Macready walks each...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

250 words

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The Sentry at the Gate

The ancient city of Philippi was a Roman colony — a garrison city, which meant soldiers stood at every gate. Citizens slept knowing armed guards...

Philippians 4:6-7Universalanxiety

222 words

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The Farmer's Almanac on Margaret's Kitchen Table

Every March, Margaret Calloway of Boone County, Kentucky, set her worn Farmer's Almanac on the kitchen windowsill and planned her garden by the sun. She...

James 1:17Universal

241 words

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Written Into the Fiber

In 1979, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer met for the first time at age thirty-nine. They were identical twins, separated at birth and raised by...

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

247 words

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The Watchmaker's Lens

Dr. Elena Vasquez had spent twenty-three years as a neonatal surgeon at Johns Hopkins, but she never lost the habit of pausing mid-operation to marvel....

Psalm 139:14Universal

236 words

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The Missionary Who Became Chinese

In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Hudson Taylor arrived in Shanghai wearing a black English suit and speaking not a word of Mandarin. The Chinese people regarded him...

John 1:1-14Universal

231 words

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The Geneticist Who Knew Every Kernel

In the 1930s, Barbara McClintock spent her days at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, bent over ears of corn. While other scientists dismissed...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

248 words