700 illustrations referencing 1 Corinthians
A lighthouse keeper lived alone on a rocky island, maintaining a beacon that guided ships safely to harbor. Every night for thirty years, he climbed the narrow stairs to light the great lamp. Ships wo...
Louise Banks learns the alien language—and it changes how she experiences time. She can see her future: the joy of her daughter's birth, the agony of her daughter's death. Knowing the end, she still c
Evelyn Wang can access infinite versions of herself across the multiverse—every choice she didn't make, every life she could have lived. At first it's overwhelming chaos. But she discovers the secret:
Corinth Corinth was one of the oldest cities of Greece, with evidence of settlement going back to at least 3000 BC. Its prime location along both east-west and north-south trade routes enabled it to
Corinth Corinth was one of the oldest cities of Greece, with evidence of settlement going back to at least 3000 BC. Its prime location along both east-west and north-south trade routes enabled it to
In Coco, the dead truly die only when no one living remembers them. Héctor is fading because his daughter Coco, now elderly, is forgetting him. Miguel races to restore her memory before it's too late.
When Dorothy Henderson died at ninety-three in Macon, Georgia, nearly four hundred people filled the sanctuary at First Baptist. The pastor admitted he was stunned....
On November 9, 1989, East Berliner Angelika Wachs stood in a crowd pressing toward the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint. For twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall had...
On a crisp September morning in Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard foreman Miguel Ruiz walks between rows of Honeycrisp apple trees and plucks a single fruit...
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled with other women in Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The fleas were so thick...
Beneath the streets of Rome, in the cool darkness of the catacombs, early Christians carved messages on the tombs of their dead. What they wrote...
In the spring of 1737, George Frideric Handel suffered a devastating stroke that paralyzed his right side. Doctors in London declared his career finished. The...
On December 22, 1899, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody lay dying in his Northfield, Massachusetts home. His family gathered close, grief heavy in the...
When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, the most critical work happened where no one could see it. Workers descended into...
Marcus Chen was seven the summer his grandfather kept bees in the backyard of their home in Asheville, North Carolina. One August afternoon, a honeybee...
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...
Dylan Thomas's poem echoes throughout Interstellar: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." It's the anthem of humanity refusing extinction. But the Psalmis
In 2019, Dr. William Matsui at Johns Hopkins watched a patient named Gerald, a retired Baltimore bus driver, ring the brass bell mounted on the...
Margaret Chen had been terrified of bees since she was seven years old — the summer a yellow jacket crawled into her Kool-Aid and introduced...
In Big Fish, Edward Bloom tells fantastical stories his son Will dismisses as lies. Only at his father's deathbed does Will understand: the stories were how Edward loved—transforming ordinary people i
In the summer of 1988, wildfires consumed nearly 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park. Television cameras captured what looked like total devastation — blackened trunks,...
In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...
In February 1942, British commanders in Singapore believed their position was unassailable. They called it "the Gibraltar of the East." Over 80,000 troops were garrisoned...
On December 22, 1899, Dwight L. Moody lay in his bedroom in Northfield, Massachusetts, his body failing after weeks of declining health. The man who...