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370 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
When Marco Alvarez moved into the small bungalow on Sycamore Street in Tucson, he treated it like every other rental. He let the faucet drip...
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Every summer, the outfitter at Lake Windermere in British Columbia rents cedar-strip canoes to tourists. Before anyone touches a paddle, old Tom Macready walks each...
In 2012, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra nearly cut its percussion section during budget negotiations. The logic seemed sound — why pay four musicians who sometimes...
In 2012, a documentary called *Somm* followed four candidates preparing for the Master Sommelier exam — one of the hardest tests in the world, with...
In 2014, Yale University hosted a panel on suffering and meaning. Three philosophers debated theodicy with precision — quoting Leibniz, referencing modal logic, parsing the...
In 1930, the China Inland Mission rejected Gladys Aylward. She was a parlor maid from Edmonton, north London — no university degree, no seminary training,...
In 2019, conservator Eliane Dotson spent fourteen months restoring Artemisia Gentileschi's seventeenth-century painting at the National Gallery in London. Every morning she arrived before dawn,...
In 1722, a ragged band of Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing but the clothes...
In 2011, engineer Linda Figg stood before skeptics in St. Petersburg, Florida, as construction began on the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge approach. Midway through the...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864, his infant body literally valued at three hundred dollars — the price Moses Carver...
In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither...
During World War II, a young clerk named Mavis Lever arrived at Bletchley Park with no formal training in cryptography. The seasoned mathematicians around her...
When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the old marrow — diseased, failing, producing only death — is destroyed. New donor marrow is infused,...
Every September, researchers at the University of Kansas tag thousands of monarch butterflies migrating through the Great Plains. Dr. Orley "Chip" Taylor has led this...
In 2017, a team at Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a groundbreaking face transplant on Katie Stubblefield, a young woman from Mississippi. The operation lasted thirty-one...
On a warm afternoon in late August, a beekeeper named Margaret was checking her hives when a honeybee landed on her bare forearm. She didn't...
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...
Veteran nurses at Johns Hopkins call it "the feeling." Maria Gonzalez, a thirty-year ICU nurse in Baltimore, could walk past a patient's room and stop...
In 2016, a custodian named Srinivasa at a research facility in Bangalore, India, noticed a whiteboard equation that professors had struggled with for weeks. He...
In Napa Valley, master winemaker André Tchelistcheff spent decades teaching a principle that transformed California wine. A barrel, he insisted, isn't just a container —...
In 2016, residents of San Francisco's Millennium Tower discovered something terrifying. The fifty-eight-story luxury high-rise, home to multimillion-dollar condos with skyline views, had sunk seventeen...
At a vineyard wedding in Napa Valley in 2019, master sommelier Carlton McCoy was explaining the wine to guests — describing notes of blackcurrant, cedar,...
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 a crisp September morning in Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard foreman Miguel Ruiz walks between rows of Honeycrisp apple trees and plucks a single fruit...