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The Girl Who Asked for His Reinstatement

In August 2014, thirteen-year-old Mo'ne Davis became the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series history. Her seventy-mile-per-hour fastball made her...

Universalforgiveness

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The Coral That Grew Faster Broken

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...

Universalrestoration

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When the Caterpillar Becomes Soup

In 2008, researchers at Georgetown University made a remarkable discovery about butterfly metamorphosis. Scientists had long known that inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar essentially dissolves...

Universaltransformation

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The Sanskrit Scholar Who Had Nothing

In 1882, Pandita Ramabai stood in a Pune courtyard with nothing but a white widow's sari and a reputation for brilliance. She was twenty-three. Her...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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When Bach Signed Every Note to God

Johann Sebastian Bach composed over a thousand works in his lifetime — cantatas, fugues, concertos, and some of the most complex music the world has...

Universalobedience

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The Hallelujah He Could Not Hold Back

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. His health had failed him — a stroke years earlier had briefly paralyzed...

Universaltrust

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The God Who Repairs What Breaks

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells suffers between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Radiation, toxins, even the...

Universalrestoration

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The Moment Before the Downbeat

On a Thursday evening in 1951, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra sat tuning in Orchestra Hall. Oboes bleated against cellos. Timpani rumbled beneath shrieking violins. A...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

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The Dragon Skin He Couldn't Remove

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his...

Universalrestoration

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The Lunch Lady Who Kept a Running Tab

For fourteen years, Maria Gonzalez worked the register in a middle school cafeteria in San Antonio, Texas. She noticed what most adults missed — the...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

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Counting Backward From Ten

Every day, in operating rooms around the world, patients do something remarkable. They lie down on a narrow table beneath blinding lights, surrounded by strangers...

Universaltrust

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The Membership We Were Made For

In Wendell Berry's novel *Hannah Coulter*, the title character looks back on life in the small farming community of Port William, Kentucky. She describes what...

Universalcommunity

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The Composer Who Wept Over His Own Manuscript

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London rooms and began composing one of the most celebrated works in Western...

Universalhumility

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Wait and Hope

In Alexandre Dumas's *The Count of Monte Cristo*, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely accused and thrown into an island prison with no...

Universalhope

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Margaret's Kitchen Door

Margaret Chen knocked on her neighbor Ruth's kitchen door every Tuesday morning for three years. The first time, she came asking to borrow a cup...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

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The Emperor Penguin's Call

Every winter in Antarctica, emperor penguins crowd together in colonies of forty thousand or more — a churning sea of identical black-and-white bodies huddled against...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Letter That Arrived Before They Ever Met

In 1896, George Washington Carver was finishing his master's degree at Iowa State Agricultural College — the first Black student to earn one there. He...

John 1:43-51Universal

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The Boy Beneath the Dragon Skin

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard, clutching a golden bracelet,...

Universalidentity

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The Claws That Heal

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he has...

Universalhealing

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The Choir That Needed No Translator

In 2015, a video went viral from a packed church in Beirut, Lebanon. Syrian refugees, Iraqi Christians, Lebanese believers, and a handful of Filipino migrant...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

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The Night Shift Ends

Maria Delgado worked the overnight shift at Mercy General in San Antonio for eleven years. She clocked in at ten and clocked out at six...

Ephesians 5:8-14Universal

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The Crossing Guard on Maple Street

For eleven years, Dorothy Chen stood at the corner of Maple and Third in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guiding children safely across the street. She knew...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

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The Rabbit Who Was Loved Into Being

In Margery Williams' beloved children's story *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed toy asks the old Skin Horse a question that haunts every human heart: "What...

Universalidentity

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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

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