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In 2015, twenty-six-year-old Stefanie Davis was stocking shelves at a grocery store in rural Kentucky when her phone buzzed. A social worker was on the...
In 2019, a young woman named Sarah walked into a Walmart in Hartsville, South Carolina, and started singing "Way Maker" in the middle of the...
The shepherds were deep in their third watch — that cold, nameless stretch between midnight and dawn when the hills outside Bethlehem were black and...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the wretched creature Gollum has been skulking behind the Fellowship in the darkness of...
Margaret Chen was fifty-three years old and dying of pancreatic cancer when she started singing hymns in Ward Seven of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas...
In 1846, as the Irish Potato Famine tightened its grip, Parliament debated policy and churches held solemn days of prayer and fasting. Meanwhile, a tiny...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a doctor's careless treatment left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunrise, never read a page...
In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, arresting the entire family for harboring Jewish refugees. Corrie ten Boom's elderly...
Misty Copeland, the first African American principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, once described how she guards her body with an almost sacred attentiveness. She...
If you have ever struggled with a dead zone in your house — that one corner where the signal drops and your phone just spins...
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In the 1930s, the Great Plains of America became a wasteland. For years, farmers had torn up millions of acres of native grassland, chasing wheat...
In Chile's Atacama Desert — one of the driest places on earth — seeds lie buried beneath cracked, barren soil for years, sometimes decades. They...
In Napa Valley, master winemaker André Tchelistcheff spent decades teaching a principle that transformed California wine. A barrel, he insisted, isn't just a container —...
When Maria Santos stood up at her church in San Antonio last fall, her hands were shaking. Six months earlier, doctors had found a tumor...
In the spring of 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maui Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged, thirty-five-foot cliff the soldiers called...
In 1916, a lighthouse keeper named Amos Holbrook at Point Reyes, California, grew dissatisfied with the old Fresnel lens that had guided ships safely through...
In 1989, a young graduate student named Lucile Jones was working late at the Southern California Seismograph Network when she noticed a pattern of micro-tremors...
If you have ever put on a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones, you know the almost eerie moment when the outside world goes quiet. The...
In 1725, a young German nobleman named Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf stood before a painting of the crucified Christ in an art gallery in Düsseldorf....
A loggerhead sea turtle hatches on a dark beach, scrambles to the surf, and disappears into the Atlantic. She will spend the next twenty to...
In 1952, a young minister named William Hull stood before his small congregation in Albany, Georgia, and did something no one expected. He had been...
In the village of Luss, on the western shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland, there stands a yew tree in the churchyard that has been...
In 2006, marine biologist Dr. David Vaughan was cleaning a tank at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida when he accidentally snapped a piece of elkhorn...