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In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful finally reach the last obstacle before the Celestial City — a deep, dark river...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years. He was...
By the time Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony in 1824, he was almost entirely deaf. He could not hear a single note of...
Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old when a mustard poultice, applied by an incompetent doctor, destroyed her vision permanently. She would never...
In *The Return of the King*, the final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*, Samwise Gamgee lies exhausted in Mordor. The land...
In George MacDonald's beloved children's novel *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives a remarkable gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a thin, silken...
In *The Return of the King*, J.R.R. Tolkien gives us one of literature's most quietly powerful portraits of faith. Sam Gamgee finds himself deep in...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, four travelers find themselves trapped underground, where a witch weaves an enchantment to make them forget everything they have...
In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens. After the donor's marrow engrafts, the recipient's blood cells begin carrying the donor's DNA. Hematologists call this "chimerism"...
In bone marrow transplant medicine, there is a period doctors call engraftment — and it may be the closest thing in modern science to a...
In a small town not far from here, there lived a woman named Helen, whose life became a testament to courage and perseverance. After losing her husband, Helen found herself grappling with not only grief but the overwhelming weight of...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, the Council of Elrond gathers the wisest and mightiest figures in Middle-earth to decide the fate of...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, gray water. Somewhere beneath those waves, his...