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Refuge Among the Fleas of Ravensbrück

In the winter of 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsey were transferred to Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The straw bedding crawled...

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Corrie ten Boom and the Refuge That Held

When the Nazis occupied Holland in 1940, watchmaker Casper ten Boom and his daughter Corrie made a quiet, dangerous decision. They built a hidden room...

Nahum 1:7Universal

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The Cellar Beneath the Farmhouse

When the tornado sirens screamed across Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, Mark Anderson grabbed his two daughters and ran for the cellar beneath his...

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The Concrete Room Beneath the Oklahoma Grass

On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, with winds topping 210 miles per hour. It leveled schools, shredded homes to their...

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The Deadly Arms That Hold You Safe

On coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific, the sea anemone is a terror. Its tentacles carry nematocysts — microscopic harpoons loaded with venom — that paralyze...

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The Clownfish's Unlikely Refuge

On any coral reef from the Red Sea to the shallow waters off Papua New Guinea, the sea anemone is a quiet killer. Its tentacles...

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Corrie ten Boom's Hidden Room

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room behind a false wall in their Haarlem home....

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The Slow River That Carved the Canyon

In 1869, John Wesley Powell strapped himself to a wooden chair bolted to the deck of a small boat and led nine men into the...

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The Slow Fuse of a Patient God

In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra had been rumbling for months. Small eruptions. Columns of steam....

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The Village That Became a Fortress

In the winter of 1942, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of the presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of...

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The Eye of the Storm

Hurricane hunters with NOAA's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron fly directly into the most violent weather on earth. Their WP-3D Orion turboprops punch through walls of...

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The Kitchen Light on Crawford Street

Margaret Holloway kept her porch light on during every storm. Her grandchildren knew this. When thunder cracked over their neighborhood in Joplin, Missouri, and the...

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The Shelter on Galveston's Seawall

When Hurricane Ike barreled toward Galveston, Texas in September 2008, most residents evacuated. But Jim and Elaine Maddox, an elderly couple on 53rd Street, couldn't...

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Eric Liddell's Quiet Certainty at Weihsien

In February 1945, the Weihsien internment camp in northern China was a place of dust, disease, and dwindling rations. Eighteen hundred civilians — missionaries, teachers,...

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The Cellar Beneath the Bombing

In September 1940, German bombers pounded London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Hutchinson, a schoolteacher in Bermondsey, led her fourteen students each evening into the...

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The Cold Spring Beneath the Burning River

In the summer of 2015, a brutal heat wave settled over Oregon's John Day River basin. Water temperatures climbed past 75 degrees Fahrenheit — lethal...

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The Cellar on Peshtigo's Darkest Night

On the evening of October 8, 1871, while the nation's attention would later fix on the Great Chicago Fire, something far deadlier swept through Peshtigo,...

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The Cellar on Remembered Street

In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described...

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The Breakwater at Plymouth

In 1812, engineer John Rennie began constructing a massive breakwater across Plymouth Sound in southwest England. For centuries, ships anchoring in that harbor had been...

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Galveston

When Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, the storm surge swallowed entire neighborhoods. Streets became rivers. Homes folded like cardboard. In the...

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The Shelter That Knew Her Name

When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, dumping more than fifty inches of rain in four days, Adrienne Davis watched the water rise...

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The Overhang on Franconia Ridge

Sarah Whitfield was four miles above treeline on Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire's White Mountains when the sky split open. No warning — just a...

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The Slow Fuse

In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Tegel prison cell, waiting. He had watched the Nazi regime devour Europe for a decade. He had seen...

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