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In 1930, Gladys Aylward stood before the China Inland Mission board in London and heard words that stung like a slap: she was too old...
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In 1912, William Borden walked away from a fortune worth roughly sixteen million dollars. The twenty-five-year-old heir to the Borden dairy empire had graduated from...
When Dr. Margaret Chen arrived in the remote Hmong village of Ban Nam Hia in northern Laos, she had already spent three years studying the...
Dr. Amara Osei had delivered over three thousand babies in her twenty-two years at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. She thought she understood birth....
For eleven months, Robert Callahan worked in his garage in Asheville, North Carolina, hand-planing black walnut boards for a dining table. He joined each piece...
In 2019, a high school senior named Destiny Williams in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, opened her mailbox to find a handwritten note from a college admissions...
Margaret Ellison hadn't spoken to her neighbor Deb in three years — not since the property line dispute, the lawyers, the cold silence that settled...
In 1913, G.H. Hardy, the most distinguished mathematician at Cambridge, received a letter from an unknown clerk in Madras, India. The envelope contained page after...
Imagine a young scientist, eyes bright with curiosity, standing in a darkened lab, surrounded by flickering screens and intricate instruments. She has dedicated her life to studying the mysteries of light, chasing down the elusive particles that dance through the...
In the Weihsien internment camp in occupied China, a Scottish missionary organized games for restless children, tutored teenagers in science, and carried coal for elderly...
Every June in the Great Smoky Mountains, thousands of visitors crowd into the Elkmont campground for one of nature's most astonishing displays. Synchronous fireflies —...
In the days before digital photography, photographers developed their images in darkrooms — small, sealed rooms bathed in dim red safelight. The photographic paper sat...
In the old-growth forests of British Columbia, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the soil. Towering Douglas firs are connected by an underground web...
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." He was claiming to be the LORD of Psalm 23—David's divine Shepherd made flesh. This changes everything. The Shepherd who leads us through death's valley has Himself walked through death.
What does it mean to have your paths made straight? In Christ, we see the answer: Jesus IS the way (John 14:6). "Trust in the LORD" isn't abstract—it's trust in the One who became flesh and walked our roads. "He...