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When you step from bright sunlight into a dark room, you are momentarily blind. Everything disappears. Your instinct says turn back, find the light, get...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunset, never read a page of...
Every day, approximately sixty thousand Americans lie down on an operating table and do something remarkable — they allow a anesthesiologist to render them completely...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied hot poultices to her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her...
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. His health had failed him — a stroke years earlier had briefly paralyzed...
In C.S. Lewis's *Prince Caspian*, there is a moment that quietly breaks your heart. The children are lost in the gorge, exhausted, arguing over which...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called reckless. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that stops readers in their tracks. The Pevensie children have just...
In 2013, researchers at Georgetown University published a remarkable finding about caterpillars. During metamorphosis, a caterpillar inside its chrysalis doesn't simply sprout wings. It dissolves....
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers her mysterious great-great-grandmother living in a hidden tower room. The grandmother gives Irene...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunrise, a loved one's face,...
In *The Hiding Place*, Corrie ten Boom remembers a conversation with her father that would anchor her faith through the darkest chapter of the twentieth...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that colleagues thought was career suicide. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied hot poultices to her inflamed eyes. The treatment destroyed her sight...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that has stopped readers in their tracks for over seventy years....
Every autumn, billions of birds launch themselves into skies that hold no visible path. The European robin, barely larger than a child's fist, leaves its...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, there is a scene that has haunted readers for decades. Puddleglum the Marshwiggle and two children have journeyed deep...
In E.B. White's *Charlotte's Web*, Wilbur the pig receives terrifying news: come winter, he will be slaughtered. He is desperate, helpless, and afraid. Then Charlotte,...
A loggerhead sea turtle hatches on a dark beach, scrambles to the surf, and disappears into the Atlantic. She will spend the next twenty to...
Every day, in operating rooms around the world, patients do something remarkable. They lie down on a narrow table beneath blinding lights, surrounded by strangers...
In a bone marrow transplant, physicians do something that sounds terrifying. They deliberately destroy the patient's entire immune system with high-dose chemotherapy. Every white blood...
Every day, across the world, roughly sixty thousand people do something remarkable — they lie down on an operating table, look up at a person...