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The Rancher Who Came Looking

In 2019, a cattle rancher named Dale Pennington outside of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, noticed that three of his weaker heifers had gone missing after a...

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The Rancher Who Drove Through the Storm

In February 2019, a polar vortex dropped temperatures across the Texas Panhandle to twenty below zero. Cattle rancher Jake Herrmann of Amarillo woke at 3...

Ezekiel 34:11-16Universal

The Rancher Who Went Out in the Storm

In February 2019, a polar vortex drove temperatures across the Midwest to forty below zero. Most ranchers in western Nebraska hunkered down and waited it...

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The Search and Rescue Dog Who Never Quit

In 2010, a border collie named Keno worked with Montana Search and Rescue, covering terrain no human team could manage alone. When a twelve-year-old boy...

The Rancher Who Walked the Flood Line

In March 2019, when the Missouri River surged over its banks near Craig, Missouri, rancher Dave Hogeland lost track of forty-three head of cattle. Neighbors...

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Forgotten Flock

In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas stood in his church on the island of Hispaniola and read the words of Ecclesiasticus:...

The Stockbroker Who Searched for the Lost Children

In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled to Prague. Jewish families were desperate, their children in grave danger...

The Church That Refused to Stay Buried

In 1966, Mao Zedong's Red Guards swept through China with a singular mission: destroy every trace of Christianity. They shuttered churches, burned Bibles by the...

Ezekiel 37:1-14Universal

The Principal Who Walked the Lunch Line

At a middle school outside Memphis, the cafeteria had an unspoken hierarchy. The athletes and popular kids pushed to the front, loaded their trays with...

The Trickle That Revived a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. His...

The River That Brought the Fish Back

In 1858, the River Thames was so polluted that Parliament hung lime-soaked curtains over their windows just to endure the stench. They called it "The...

One More Down the Ridge

On the morning of May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer four-hundred-foot cliff the...

The Orchard Near the Dead Sea

In 2001, permaculture designer Geoff Lawton stood on a barren, salt-crusted plot in the Jordan Valley, just miles from the Dead Sea. The soil was...

The Seven Trees That Became a Forest

In 1977, Wangari Maathai knelt in the red soil of her backyard in Nairobi, Kenya, and planted seven trees. It was a modest act —...

When Evan Roberts Wept in a Chapel

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. He...

The Lady with the Lamp Who Sought the Forgotten

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari in November 1854, she found soldiers lying in their own filth on bare floors,...

From Rubble to Harvest

In 2014, volunteers with the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative gathered on a stretch of abandoned lots in Detroit's North End. The properties were littered with...

Ezekiel 37:1-14Universal

The Stream from Herrnhut

In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few...

The Cobbler's Trickle That Became a Flood

In 1793, a Northamptonshire cobbler named William Carey stepped off a ship in Calcutta with little more than a printing press and a stubborn conviction...

Detroit Breathes Again

In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Whole neighborhoods stood hollow — 78,000 abandoned buildings, streetlights dark for miles, emergency response...

Ezekiel 37:1-14Universal

The River That Brought a Desert Back to Life

In 1935, the Tennessee Valley was dying. Decades of poor farming had stripped the soil bare. Rivers ran brown with erosion. Families abandoned homesteads where...

The Spring at Herrnhut

In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the German village of Herrnhut on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate. They were fractured,...

The Spring in the Salt Flat

In Utah's west desert, miles from anything green, there is a place called Fish Springs. The land surrounding it is cracked alkali — white, barren,...