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In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring at gray water that had swallowed his four daughters...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat down at her piano and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say...
In Michelangelo's *Creation of Adam* on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, most people notice the gap between the two famous fingers — that charged space where...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was broke, paralyzed by debt, and half-crippled from a stroke. His operas had flopped. London's elite had moved on. By...
On November 22, 1873, a ship called the Ville du Havre collided with an iron sailing vessel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and...
In 1873, a wealthy composer named Phoebe Knapp sat down at the piano in her Brooklyn mansion and played a new melody for her friend...
In 1420, the city of Florence faced a problem that had stumped architects for decades. The cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore sat unfinished, with...
In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?" she asked....
Once upon a time in a quiet village nestled in the hills of the English countryside, there lived a humble blacksmith named Thomas. Known for his skill and dedication, Thomas had spent years shaping iron into tools and horseshoes. Yet,...
There’s a small community garden in my neighborhood that has become a rich tapestry of faith and transformation. A few years ago, it was just an abandoned lot, filled with weeds and forgotten debris. But one day, a group of...
Margaret had always found solace in her garden. Each spring, she would kneel in the rich soil, planting seeds with the hope that they’d bloom into vibrant flowers. This year, however, life had thrown her a series of storms. The...
Every autumn, European robins launch themselves into vast, featureless skies and fly thousands of miles to their wintering grounds in North Africa. They travel at...
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 multiple...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
In 1886, Georges Seurat unveiled *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte*, a painting that baffled the Paris art world. Step close...
In George MacDonald's 1872 fairy tale *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers a mysterious great-great-grandmother living in a hidden room atop her...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that nearly ended his career. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he chose to...
In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal *Nature*. She found that trees in a forest are not competing loners but...
In 2016, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology attached small brain-activity monitors to great frigatebirds soaring over the Pacific Ocean. What they discovered...
Ludwig van Beethoven began losing his hearing in his late twenties — a cruel fate for a composer. By 1824, when he premiered his Ninth...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that cuts straight to the heart of what it means to...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat down at her piano and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. At fifty-six, he was drowning in debt, partially paralyzed from a stroke, and...