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When the Wagons Were Unpacked

In 1772, a young Baptist minister named John Fawcett faced the decision of a lifetime. He had been called to succeed the legendary Dr. John...

Universalcommunity

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The Composer Who Wrote His Way Back to Life

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right hand — devastating for a composer and...

Universalhealing

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The Smoke Jumper Who Learned to Read the Wind

In 2003, rookie wildland firefighter Jason Ramos reported to his first season with the Arrowhead Interagency Hotshot Crew in the San Bernardino Mountains. His superintendent,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Song on the Steps

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. She had not chosen...

Universalcourage

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The Silver the Bishop Wagered on a Thief

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. No inn will...

Universaltrust

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The Cells That Gave Everything

In 2004, a team of researchers led by Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute made a startling discovery about how our bodies fight infection....

Universalsacrifice

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Over-the-Air

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, and Tesla owners discovered something remarkable. Overnight, while their cars sat parked in garages, Tesla pushed an...

Universaltransformation

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The Mercy That Saved Middle-Earth

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the treacherous creature Gollum has been trailing the fellowship. He turns to Gandalf and...

Universalgrace

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The Voice That Refused a Lesser Name

In 1820, six-week-old Fanny Crosby was blinded when a man posing as a doctor applied a mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The world would...

Universalidentity

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The Blueprint You Were Born to Express

Every cell in your body carries the same complete set of DNA — all three billion base pairs of it. Your skin cells contain the...

Universalpurpose

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The Code That Kept Descending

On July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Moon's surface, alarms started blaring. The onboard computer flashed 1202 and 1201...

Universalcourage

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The Bone That Builds Itself

In 1892, a German surgeon named Julius Wolff published a discovery that reshaped our understanding of the human skeleton. Bone, he found, is not static....

Universalobedience

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The Thread into the Dark

In George MacDonald's 1872 fairy tale *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers a mysterious great-great-grandmother living in a hidden room atop her...

Universaltrust

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The Frequency of Touch

In 2018, neuroscientist Pavel Goldstein at the University of Colorado Boulder made a remarkable discovery. When romantic partners held hands — especially while one was...

Universallove

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The God Who Repairs What We Cannot

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions. Radiation, toxins, even the ordinary...

Universalgrace

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The Faith to Stare at Nothing

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that baffled his colleagues. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the Hubble...

Universalpatience

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The Donor's Blood Running Through Your Veins

In a bone marrow transplant, something medically astonishing happens. After the donor's marrow engrafts, the recipient's blood type can actually change to match the donor's....

Universalgrace

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Pointing the Telescope at Nothing

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...

Universalfaith

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The Warmth That Saves

In 1978, at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogotá, Colombia, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis. His neonatal ward lacked enough incubators for the...

Universallove

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The Biology of Letting Go

In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a landmark study on what happens inside the human body when we refuse to...

Universalforgiveness

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The Code That Was Never Junk

For decades, scientists believed that roughly 98% of human DNA was useless — leftover evolutionary noise they dismissed as "junk DNA." It seemed to serve...

Universalpurpose

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Reprogrammed

In 2006, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University made a discovery that stunned the scientific world. He found that ordinary adult skin cells — cells...

Universalredemption

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The Death That Keeps You Alive

Every day, between fifty and seventy billion of your cells quietly die. Not from injury or disease — they choose to die. Scientists call this...

Universalsacrifice

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Trusting the Dark Patch

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues considered foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...

Universalfaith

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