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The Mantle on the Tarmac

When missionary pilot Nate Saint was killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador in January 1956, his son Steve was just five years old. The boy...

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The Unfinished Symphony

When Antonin Dvorak left the National Conservatory of Music in New York in 1895, he did not simply pack his bags and vanish. For three...

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Picking Up What Was Left Behind

When NASA flight director Gene Kranz retired in 1994, he didn't just leave behind a desk and a headset. He left behind a way of...

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The Surgeon Who Worked by Candlelight

During the fall of 1944, Dr. grueling months of the London Blitz had left — actually, let me craft something more fitting and specific. The...

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The Muddy River and the General's Pride

In 2003, a retired Army colonel named Frank sat in a bare church basement in Columbus, Ohio, staring at a circle of metal folding chairs....

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The Seventh Dip

In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish uncovered before going on vacation. When he returned to his lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London,...

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The Frequency We Cannot Hear

In 1977, astronomers at the Big Ear radio telescope in Delaware, Ohio, detected a seventy-two-second signal from deep space — a burst of energy so...

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Seven Steps Into Muddy Water

In 1982, a young chemist named Gertrude Elion stood in a Stockholm concert hall to receive the Nobel Prize for developing the first effective drug...

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The Cure He Almost Refused

In 2019, a cardiac surgeon in Nashville told forty-seven-year-old Marcus Dean that his dangerously high blood pressure could be managed — not with an experimental...

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The Mantle on the Riverbank

In 1968, thirty-nine-year-old Ralph Abernathy stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, cradling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as his mentor lay...

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The Coach's Whistle

When legendary basketball coach Dean Smith retired from the University of North Carolina in 1997, he left behind more than a record book. He left...

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The Surgeon Who Worked by Ultraviolet Light

In 2012, a surgical team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York began using fluorescence-guided surgery to remove cancerous tumors. The surgeon would inject a...

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The Bodyguard Who Became a Reformer

In the winter of 1546, the Scottish preacher George Wishart traveled from town to town proclaiming the gospel against fierce opposition. At his side walked...

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Ignaz Semmelweis and the Offense of Simple Obedience

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have revolutionized medicine overnight. At Vienna General Hospital, mothers were dying...

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The Chef Who Kept the Restaurant Alive

When legendary chef Leah Chase passed away in 2019 at age ninety-six, the future of Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans hung in the balance....

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The Audacity to Ask for More

In 1948, a young Baptist preacher named Howard Thurman sat across from Mahatma Gandhi in his sparse ashram in Sevagram, India. Gandhi had spent decades...

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The Translator's Unfinished Bible

In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final...

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The Mantle Tyndale Left Behind

In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the New Testament into English so...

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The Doctor They Laughed At

In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something devastating in the Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors were dying of...

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The Surgeon Who Refused the Simple Prescription

Dr. Elena Vargas had spent twenty-three years as one of Houston's most respected cardiac surgeons. When persistent chest tightness sent her to a colleague's office...

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