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In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the forest floor of British Columbia. What looked like a collection of individual trees standing independently...
When you step inside Chartres Cathedral in France and look up at its stained glass windows — among the finest in the world — you...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a moment at the Council of Elrond where Frodo, the smallest and most unlikely figure...
In June 2004, the Detroit Pistons did something the basketball world considered impossible. They faced the Los Angeles Lakers — a roster glittering with future...
In the hills of Appalachia, a musical tradition has survived for over two hundred years that most people have never heard of. It is called...
In Wendell Berry's novel *Hannah Coulter*, the narrator describes something she calls "the membership" — the web of neighboring farm families in the small town...
In *The Four Loves*, C.S. Lewis makes a striking observation about friendship and community. He writes that in every circle of friends, each person draws...
In the hills of Appalachia, a singing tradition has endured for over two hundred years. Sacred Harp singing gathers ordinary people — farmers, teachers, nurses,...
In the 1990s, forest ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard made a remarkable discovery beneath the floors of British Columbia's old-growth forests. Using radioactive carbon tracers, she...
In cardiac research laboratories, scientists have observed something remarkable about heart muscle cells. When individual cardiomyocytes are isolated in a petri dish, each one contracts...
Dr. Paul Brand spent decades as a surgeon in Vellore, India, treating patients with Hansen's disease — what the ancient world called leprosy. For centuries,...
Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia — a coal-mining town so small it barely appeared on maps. He was the youngest of...
In cardiac research laboratories, scientists have observed something remarkable about heart muscle cells. When a single cardiomyocyte is isolated in a petri dish, it beats...
In cardiac research laboratories, scientists have observed something remarkable. When individual heart muscle cells — cardiomyocytes — are isolated in a petri dish, each one...