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Every season of life carries distinct duties and temptations.
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's *The Brothers Karamazov*, there is a scene that has stunned readers for over a century. Father Zosima is a revered elder —...
In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Switzerland. He created the system of...
Alexander observes, this sin must be abjured both for its destructive effects and as the worst form of pride.
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" The prophet indicts a specific vice: descendants trafficking in their ancestors' glory while possessing none themselves.
In December 1995, Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, made a decision that baffled his colleagues. He pointed the Hubble...
By 1944, the Weihsien internment camp near Weifang, China, had stripped its prisoners down to almost nothing. Among the roughly 1,800 Allied civilians held by...
The prophet's rhetorical question—"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?"—exposes the folly of the Assyrian king, who attributed his conquests entirely to his own skill and military might, ignorant that Yahweh wielded him as an instrument.
For nineteen seasons, Tim Duncan dominated the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs. Five championships. Three Finals MVP awards. Fifteen All-Star selections. Yet he never...
Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds.
In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that mirrors the heart of Christian humility. Before a donor's marrow can save a recipient's life, the recipient...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Horse and His Boy*, there is a moment that has quietly stunned readers for decades. Shasta, a runaway boy who has...
As I walked through the quiet woods near my home, I came across a small sapling bravely pushing its way through the rich, dark soil. It was a stark contrast to the towering oaks surrounding it, their branches swaying gracefully...
Every time you load a webpage, send an email, or stream a sermon online, your device is using something called TCP — Transmission Control Protocol....
In an era of chest-thumping and self-promotion, Tim Duncan spent nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and never once demanded the spotlight. Five NBA...
Every time you pick up your smartphone, you interact with an operating system — iOS or Android — that performs thousands of tasks per second....
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to visit Prague. What he found in the refugee camps changed everything. Jewish...
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes these opposing spirits: the proud man esteems himself better than others; the humble man esteems others better than himself.
In Dostoevsky's *The Brothers Karamazov*, there is a remarkable scene where the elderly monk Father Zossima does something that shocks everyone in the monastery. In...
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D.C., alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over...
In 2020, a team of researchers at the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks published findings that stunned the scientific community. Beneath a single...
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
On December 7, 1996, Wisława Szymborska stood before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture. The Polish poet — so private she...
The seer of Patmos reveals a startling truth: every human heart has constituted itself a throne of judgment over others.