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In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave on the Tennessee River to die. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him nearly everything — his...
In 1600, Caravaggio completed a painting that still stops visitors in their tracks at the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. *The Calling...
In a bone marrow transplant, the patient's diseased marrow — the very factory that produces their blood — is first destroyed through chemotherapy. Every last...
In 1600, the Italian painter Caravaggio completed one of the most stunning depictions of redemption ever put to canvas. *The Calling of Saint Matthew*, which...
In 1748, a young sailor named John Newton found himself aboard a ship caught in a violent storm off the coast of Ireland. The vessel...
Every second of every day, your body is performing an act of quiet redemption. Scientists estimate that the human body repairs roughly 70,000 DNA lesions...
In 1748, a violent storm nearly sank a slave trading vessel off the coast of Ireland. On board was John Newton — a foul-mouthed, morally...
There’s a woman named Sarah, a member of our community, whose story resonates deeply with the themes of redemption and transformation. Not long ago, Sarah found herself trapped in a cycle of addiction that had consumed her life for years....
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still reshapes how we understand the human body. What we now call Wolff's Law reveals...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years, overcome five...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had hollowed him...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had cost him...
In 1968, Johnny Cash walked into Folsom Prison to play a concert for two thousand inmates. What most people forget is that Cash himself was...
In the autumn of 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave on the Tennessee River, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate...
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final with one dream — to win a medal. Halfway around...
In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays made Josh Hamilton the number one overall pick in the MLB Draft. He was eighteen years old with...
In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays made Josh Hamilton the number one overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft. Scouts called his swing...
Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions — breaks, mismatches, and corruptions caused by...
In 1991, a teenager named Bart Millard was carrying scars — literal and otherwise — from years of abuse at the hands of his father,...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right side. Creditors circled. London...
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a strong contender for the 400-meter semifinals. Midway through the race, his hamstring snapped...
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar for mapping how cells repair damaged DNA. What...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of twenty-seven thousand nuclear bombs, leveling 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes....
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff documented a remarkable discovery about the human skeleton. When a bone fractures, the body doesn't simply glue the pieces...