Illustrations from 1 Corinthians

The Fisherman's Grandson at the Marine Biology Conference

In 2019, a marine biology symposium in Monterey, California invited local fishermen to join a panel on coastal ecosystems. Among them sat Carlos, a third-generation...

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The Antivenom

Every year at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, New South Wales, handlers carefully grip the heads of eastern brown snakes and taipans — two...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

The Mechanic Who Heard What the Engineers Couldn't

In 2019, a team of aerospace engineers at a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kansas, spent three weeks trying to diagnose a persistent vibration in a...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Body in the Prison Cell

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...

The Small Woman Who Carried No Credentials

In 1930, the China Inland Mission rejected Gladys Aylward. She was a parlor maid from Edmonton, north London — no university degree, no seminary training,...

The Cathedral That Refused to Cut Corners

In 2019, when fire tore through Notre-Dame de Paris, the world watched in horror as the spire collapsed and the roof caved in. But engineers...

The Bedrock Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge

When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, he knew everything depended on what no one would ever see — the foundation....

Corrie ten Boom and the Yielded Body

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood inside the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped bare alongside her sister Betsie and hundreds of other women....

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

The First Cell of a New Creation

When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the old marrow — diseased, failing, producing only death — is destroyed. New donor marrow is infused,...

The Conservator's Hands

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,...

The African Boy Who Taught the Professors to Pray

In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...

1 Corinthians 1:18-31Universal

The Untrained Preacher Who Shook London

In 1854, a nineteen-year-old with no seminary degree and no formal ordination stepped into the pulpit of London's New Park Street Chapel. The deacons who...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

The Surgery That Needed Every Hand

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...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

The Bee That Already Stung

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...

The House on Pilings

When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Rockport, Texas, in August 2017, entire neighborhoods were flattened. Roofs peeled away like paper. Walls collapsed into heaps of soggy...

The ER Nurse Who Knew Before the Monitors Did

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...

George Müller's Surrendered Appetite

In 1825, a young German student named George Müller was living recklessly in Halle, drinking heavily, running up debts, and treating his body as a...

The Sinking Tower on Mission Street

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...

The Master Vintner's Barrel

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 —...

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The Janitor Who Solved the Equation

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...

The Foundation Stone of St. Paul's

When Christopher Wren began rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666, he faced a decision that would determine the fate...

The Crooked House on Elm Street

In 2019, a couple in Waco, Texas bought a charming 1920s bungalow, eager to renovate. They poured forty thousand dollars into gorgeous hardwood floors, custom...

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The Beekeeper's Lesson

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...