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In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in prison, reduced to a number: 24601. When he's finally released, he carries that number...
In 1822, Charlotte Elliott was thirty-two years old and chronically ill — bedridden for months at a time, questioning her worth, her faith, even her...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean is a man defined by a number. Nineteen years in prison for stealing bread have reduced him to...
In the 1950s, Mahalia Jackson was the most celebrated gospel voice in America — the "Queen of Gospel," sought after by European concert halls, the...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean has spent nineteen years in prison. When he is finally released, his yellow passport marks him as a...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied the wrong poultice to her infected eyes and left her permanently...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard, clutching a golden bracelet,...
In Margery Williams' beloved children's story *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed toy asks the old Skin Horse a question that haunts every human heart: "What...
In the seventeenth century, Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam made a startling discovery while dissecting caterpillars. Hidden inside their soft bodies, he found the folded beginnings...