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In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, Alsace....
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel *The Secret Garden*, young Colin Craven has spent his entire childhood confined to a darkened bedroom, convinced he is...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, there is a boy named Eustace Scrubb who is so consumed by greed that he falls...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb becomes a dragon — transformed by his own greed when he falls...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he has...
In the early 1500s, the German painter Matthias Grünewald created the Isenheim Altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Alsace. The monks there cared for patients...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a scene that has stayed with readers for generations. After the great battle before Minas...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the insufferable boy Eustace Scrubb is transformed into a dragon by his own greed. Desperate to...
The prophet Jeremiah asked a question heavy with despair: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" He looked at the brokenness...
Every day, without your awareness, each cell in your body sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand DNA lesions. Ultraviolet light, metabolic byproducts, even...
In 1999, scientists studying Yellowstone National Park made a remarkable discovery. Four years after wolves were reintroduced to the park, the entire ecosystem had begun...
In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed one of the most extraordinary works in Christian art — the Isenheim Altarpiece. What...
In the early sixteenth century, the painter Matthias Grünewald created the Isenheim Altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Alsace, where monks cared for patients ravaged...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb is transformed into a dragon — an outward manifestation of the greed...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a country doctor placed hot mustard poultices on her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her sight permanently....
In Japan, there is a four-hundred-year-old art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The treatment was wrong. The damage...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna that read simply: "Saved alone." Their four daughters — Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the selfish boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a breathtaking discovery: your body is repairing itself right...