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99 illustrations for sermon preparation
In the 1870s, a frail orphaned boy named George Washington Carver wandered the woods near Diamond, Missouri, cradling wilted plants in his small hands. Neighbors...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York City with every reason to stay. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had arranged a safe position...
In 1521, a Basque soldier named Ignatius of Loyola lay in a castle in northern Spain, his right leg shattered by a French cannonball at...
Long before the laboratory lights flickered on at Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver was already awake. Every morning at four o'clock, the agricultural scientist walked...
In the autumn of 1953, Frederick Buechner was a twenty-seven-year-old novelist living in Manhattan. He had published two well-received books, moved in literary circles, and...
Margaret Kimball spent forty years tuning pianos in churches across rural Vermont. She once told a reporter from the Burlington Free Press that the hardest...
When Maria Gonzalez started her first rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins, every baby's cry sounded the same to her —...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, unremarkable in the eyes of the world. The China Inland Mission...
In May 2013, intern forecaster Kendra Williams sat at her workstation in the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma. Three times that afternoon, she...
During her first clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anya Krishnan pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
In her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Anand pressed her stethoscope to an elderly patient's chest and heard something...
Maria Chen spent her first morning at Cornell's Sapsucker Woods completely overwhelmed. The May forest was alive with sound — trills, warbles, sharp chips —...
For thirty-seven years, Bill Garlick tuned pianos at Steinway Hall in Manhattan. Visitors walked past the showroom instruments every day, hearing nothing unusual. But Garlick...
In the apiaries outside Asheville, North Carolina, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Whitfield spent her first summer as an apprentice beekeeper convinced she would never...
When Kara Mullins began training as a search-and-rescue volunteer in the Cascades of Washington State, her biggest challenge was not the terrain or the cold...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was scrubbing floors in a London townhouse when something she could not name kept pulling at her heart. She had no...
In the autumn of 1785, a restless twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlour of a modest rectory on Charles Square...
Long before dawn each morning, George Washington Carver would slip out of his room at Tuskegee Institute and walk alone into the Alabama woods. He...
During her third year at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Desai pressed a stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual. Just the steady...
Marcus Thompson was a sophomore at the University of Georgia when he started waking at three in the morning, three nights running. Each time, the...
In her first week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Anand pressed a stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual....
In specialty coffee roasting, everything depends on a sound most beginners cannot hear. It is called "first crack" — the precise moment the beans pop...
Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother...
On a winter morning in Embley Park, England, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor and heard something she could not explain. She later...
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