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The Law That Bones Already Know

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that changed orthopedic medicine forever. Wolff's Law states that bone remodels itself in response to the...

Universalfaith

234 words

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The Wardrobe Door

In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, young Lucy Pevensie steps through a wardrobe into a world she has never seen. She...

Universaltrust

247 words

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The Night a Mayor Destroyed Himself to Save a Stranger

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean faces a moment that tears the soul in two. He has built a new life. He is Mayor...

Universalsacrifice

247 words

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The Moravians Who Sold Themselves Into Slavery

In 1732, two young Moravian men named Johann Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann stood on the docks of Copenhagen with a radical plan. They had...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

252 words

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The Plague That Revealed the Church

In 250 AD, a devastating plague swept through the Roman Empire. The illness — likely smallpox or measles — killed as many as five thousand...

John 13:34-35Universal

233 words

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The Gift That Keeps Us Reaching

In the 1950s, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Brand made a revolutionary discovery while treating leprosy patients in Vellore, India. For centuries, people believed leprosy itself...

Universalfaith

252 words

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The Peanut Farmer Nobody Thought Worth Teaching

In 1885, a young Black man named George Washington Carver applied to Highland College in Kansas. He was accepted by mail, but when he arrived...

John 1:43-51Universal

252 words

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The Wall That Rose in Millbrook

In 2019, a tornado carved a quarter-mile scar through Millbrook, Alabama, peeling roofs off homes and snapping a century-old oak across the entrance of Millbrook...

Nehemiah 4:6Universal

221 words

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When Only the Lion's Claws Could Go Deep Enough

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

228 words

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Michelangelo's Hidden Colors

In 1980, a team of restorers climbed scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel to begin one of the most controversial art restorations in history. For nearly...

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2Universal

220 words

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The Little Church on Vine Street

In 2019, a tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, and left First Community Church as nothing but a concrete slab and a splintered cross. When the...

Haggai 1:15b-2:9Universal

264 words

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The Bridge in the Fog

In George MacDonald's novel *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers a mysterious thread given to her by her great-great-grandmother. The thread is...

Universaltrust

248 words

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The Uncovering of the Sistine Chapel

In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked compress against a darkened section of Michelangelo's ceiling....

Malachi 3:1-4Universal

226 words

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Following the Invisible Trail

In the 1950s, biologist Arthur Hasler at the University of Wisconsin made a remarkable discovery about Pacific salmon. These fish, after spending years in the...

Universalobedience

232 words

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The Hymn Writer Who Never Needed Her Eyes

Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The treatment was wrong. The damage...

Universalhealing

235 words

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The Woman Who Fought Without a Weapon

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his children about the bravest person he ever knew. It wasn't a soldier or a...

Universalcourage

233 words

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The Search Party on Ridgeline Trail

In March 2019, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense woodland....

Luke 15:3-7Universal

232 words

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The Courage Written in Paper-Thin Wings

Each autumn, monarch butterflies launch themselves on a journey that defies everything we know about caution. Weighing less than a paperclip, they fly up to...

Universalcourage

241 words

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The Password You Never Have to Remember

Every year, the average person manages over 100 passwords. We forget them constantly. We lock ourselves out of bank accounts, email, even our own phones....

Universaltrust

232 words

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The Mother Who Gave Everything

In 2007, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a deep-sea octopus clinging to a rocky ledge, half a mile beneath the Pacific...

Universalsacrifice

254 words

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The Wardrobe Door That Never Locked

In C.S. Lewis's *The Last Battle*, the dwarfs sit in a bright, sunlit field, yet they are convinced they are trapped in a dark, filthy...

Universalfreedom

239 words

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The Invisible Thread

In George MacDonald's beloved children's novel *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives a remarkable gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a thin, silken...

Universalfaith

265 words

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The Surgery That Sets You Free

In orthopedic medicine, there is a condition called ankylosis — the fusing of a joint caused by injury, infection, or prolonged immobility. The bones that...

Universalfreedom

235 words

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When the Rivers Changed Course

In 1995, ecologists released fourteen gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park. The wolves had been absent for seventy years, and without them, the ecosystem had...

Universalrestoration

218 words