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Illustrations from 1 Samuel

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The Night the Sand Began to Whisper

In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...

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The Night the Beach Began to Move

In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...

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The Boy Who Kept Answering the Wrong Phone

In 2014, twelve-year-old Marcus Thompson lived with his grandmother in a narrow rowhouse in Baltimore. She had two phones — a cordless on the kitchen...

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The Bare Tree That Spoke to a Soldier

In the winter of 1632, an eighteen-year-old French soldier named Nicholas Herman stood staring at a leafless tree in the frozen countryside of Lorraine. The...

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The Cotton Field and the Open Door

Mary McLeod was ten years old, picking cotton alongside her parents in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1885. She could not read a single word. But...

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Augustine and the Child's Voice in the Garden

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from God...

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Augustine's Voice in the Garden

In the summer of 386 AD, a restless young professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He had spent...

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Mother Teresa and the Train to Darjeeling

On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling, heading to her annual retreat. Sister Teresa had served...

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The Frequency She Learned to Hear

In 2019, a first-year medical student named Priya Chandrasekaran sat in a cardiology lab at Johns Hopkins, stethoscope pressed to a patient's chest, hearing nothing...

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The Listening Booth at Abbey Road

In 1962, a fifteen-year-old named George Martin sat in the control room at Abbey Road Studios, learning to engineer sound. His mentor, Oscar Preuss, taught...

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The Seismologist Who Felt What Others Missed

In 1989, a young graduate student named Lucile Jones was working late at the Southern California Seismograph Network when she noticed a pattern of micro-tremors...

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The Murmur Only Dr. Patel Could Hear

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...

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George Washington Carver's 4 A.M. Walks

In the 1890s, a former enslaved man named George Washington Carver began a habit he would keep for the rest of his life. Every morning...

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The Signal the New Ham Couldn't Decode

In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa....

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Bonhoeffer's Restless Weeks in New York

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...

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The Signature on the Radar

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...

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The Piano Tuner of Steinway Hall

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...

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The Signal Her Dog Had Been Giving All Along

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...

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The Heart Murmur She Almost Missed

During her third-year clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anita Patel pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...

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The First Crack

In specialty coffee roasting, everything depends on a sound most beginners cannot hear. It is called "first crack" — the precise moment the beans pop...

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The Name That Outweighed the Arsenal

In 1944, a young French nurse named Geneviève de Galard walked into a field hospital in Indochina carrying nothing but a medical bag and a...

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The NICU Nurse Who Learned to Listen

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 —...

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The Student Who Kept Waking Up

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...

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The Heart Murmur No One Else Could Hear

Dr. Rachel Nguyen still remembers her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins. Her attending physician, Dr. Owens, pressed a stethoscope to a patient's...

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