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The Silver Candlesticks That Renamed a Man

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of prison after nineteen years, branded by a yellow passport that marks him as a convict....

Universalidentity

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Crawling Toward the Light

In 1967, Johnny Cash was a man undone. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had cost him his first marriage, landed him in jail multiple...

Universalrestoration

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The Dragon Who Couldn't Save Himself

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb is selfish, greedy, and thoroughly unpleasant. When he sneaks away from the...

Universalredemption

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When the Music Rises from the Deep

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves,...

Universalhealing

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The Full Course

In his 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Sir Alexander Fleming issued a warning about the very miracle he had given the world. Penicillin, he cautioned,...

Universalobedience

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The Outlaw of Wartburg Castle

In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms and declared, "Here I stand. I can do no other....

Mark 1:9-15Universal

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Twenty-Four Days from the Ashes

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once captivated London now faced crushing debts, a body...

Universalrestoration

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The First Victory That Promised the Last

In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

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The Grudge Your Heart Cannot Afford

In 2001, Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that should give every grudge-holder pause. She asked participants to think about someone...

Universalforgiveness

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What Your Body Already Knows

In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that changed how scientists understand forgiveness. She asked participants to recall someone...

Universalforgiveness

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When Hearts Learn to Beat as One

In cardiac research laboratories, scientists have observed something remarkable about heart muscle cells. When individual cardiomyocytes are isolated in a culture dish, each one beats...

Universalcommunity

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The Hand That Quiets the Storm

In 2006, neuroscientist Dr. James Coan at the University of Virginia placed married women inside an fMRI brain scanner and warned them they were about...

Universallove

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The Hymn That Forgiveness Wrote

When Bart Millard was growing up in Greenville, Texas, his father Arthur was a man ruled by rage. The beatings were frequent. The fear was...

Universalforgiveness

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No Junk in the Blueprint

For decades, scientists called it "junk DNA." When the Human Genome Project mapped our genetic code in 2003, researchers discovered that only about two percent...

Universalpurpose

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The Healers You Never See

Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand molecular lesions — damage from ultraviolet light, environmental...

Universalhealing

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The Wound That Must Be Opened

In surgical medicine, there is a procedure called debridement — the deliberate removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue from a wound. It seems counterintuitive....

Universalredemption

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The Transplant That Changes Your Blood

In a bone marrow transplant, something remarkable happens that most people never hear about. When a patient with leukemia receives healthy marrow from a donor,...

Universalredemption

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When Nothing Holds Everything

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

Universalfaith

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The Grain of Sand That Held Three Thousand Galaxies

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

Universaltrust

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Seeds That Refused to Die

In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and Dr. Elaine Solowey did something that seemed impossible. They took a date palm seed excavated from the ruins of...

Universalhope

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When the Broken Song Becomes the Hymn

In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife containing...

Universalhealing

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The Voice That Refused to Be Silenced

In 1939, Marian Anderson was already one of the greatest contraltos the world had ever heard. Toscanini himself said a voice like hers came along...

Universalcourage

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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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