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The Mercy That Made Jonah Furious

In 1995, a South African woman named Beth Savage sat before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town. She had survived a grenade attack...

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Swallowed Into Mercy

In 1985, a commercial diver named Michael Packard was working off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when a humpback whale accidentally scooped him into its...

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The Prayer That Had Nowhere to Go But Up

In 1993, cave diver Jill Heinerth was mapping an underwater passage inside a limestone cavern in northern Florida when her guideline snagged and her primary...

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The Prayer from Platform B

In 1987, a Scottish fisherman named Callum Hendry fell overboard into the North Sea thirty miles east of Aberdeen. The water was forty-two degrees. His...

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Rescued by the Wreckage

In 1982, a commercial fisherman named Salvador Alvarenga set out from the coast of Mexico on what should have been a routine trip. When a...

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The Mercy We Never Wanted to Share

In 1995, a South African woman named Pearl Faku sat in the Truth and Reconciliation hearings in East London and listened to the police officer...

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The Prayer He Swore He'd Forgotten

In 1988, a commercial diver named David Wardell was working sixty feet beneath the surface of the North Sea when his air hose snagged on...

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The Pardon That Made a Prosecutor Quit

In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich and watched a man walk toward her with his hand extended. She recognized...

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