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When Jesus told His disciples, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world...
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In 1725, a young Scottish craftsman named James Short began grinding lenses in Edinburgh, unknown to anyone beyond his small parish. He had no patron,...
Marcus Washington had been building furniture in his garage workshop in Durham, North Carolina, for seven years — nights and weekends, after his shift at...
In 250 AD, a devastating plague swept through the Roman Empire. The illness — likely smallpox or measles — killed as many as five thousand...
In 1968, construction workers in the Givat HaMivtar neighborhood of Jerusalem uncovered an ancient burial site. Among the limestone ossuaries, archaeologists found the remains of...
Walk into any forest in October and pick up an acorn. Hold it in your palm — it weighs almost nothing. Yet inside that small,...
In 2019, a high school point guard named Marcus Davis from Gary, Indiana, showed up uninvited to a basketball camp at Valparaiso University. He had...
In the 1930s, two carpenters worked side by side in Harlan County, Kentucky, building homes for families displaced by mine collapses. Elmer Sizemore cut corners...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital after a summer holiday and noticed something peculiar. A petri dish...
Sunlight travels ninety-three million miles through the vacuum of space, and for every one of those miles, it is invisible. No color. No warmth. No...
Midway through rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, the musicians expected the composer to stay on the podium. He had written every note — the thunder of...
In 1930, a young German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, largely unimpressed. He found the academic theology...
In the film *The Sixth Sense*, we meet a young boy named Cole Sear, who lives in a world that is both haunting and isolating. He possesses an extraordinary ability that causes him to see what most people cannot: the...
In 2019, Dr. Marcus Chen was reviewing applications for a competitive surgical residency at Johns Hopkins. Hundreds of files crossed his desk — transcripts, essays,...
On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He...
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...
Margaret Chen had been writing letters to her grandson in Beijing for eleven years. Every month, she sat at her kitchen table in Portland, choosing...
In April 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. His Sunday school student,...
In 1747, aboard the HMS Salisbury, Scottish physician James Lind watched sailors die slow, agonizing deaths from scurvy. Their gums blackened, their teeth fell out,...
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let a Black...
In 2019, a high school volleyball coach in Cedar Rapids, Iowa named Dana Sexton showed up at a middle school tournament she had no reason...
For fourteen months, the Reyes family in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, lived on letters. Staff Sergeant Marco Reyes wrote home every week from his deployment...
On Christmas Day, 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his comfortable seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the...
In the hills outside Assisi, there is a narrow stone path connecting the town to the small chapel of San Damiano. Francis walked that path...