A Nesting Place
Sand martins—small birds related to swallows—dig their nests into riverbanks. Land development in South East England reduced their ha...
New Vision
Wearing my new eyeglasses as I stepped into the sanctuary, I sat down and spotted a friend sitting directly across the aisle on the other side of...
Rescue Mission
Volunteers at a farm animal rescue organization in Australia found a wandering sheep weighed down by more than seventy-five pounds of filthy, mat...
A Small Start
The Brooklyn Bridge was considered “the eighth wonder of the world” upon its completion in 1883. But a single, slender wire strung fr...
Choose Joy
Keith was feeling down as he trudged through the produce aisle. His hands trembled from the first signs of Parkinson’s disease. How long be...
Finishing Strong
At the age of 103, a woman named Man Kaur competed as India’s oldest female athlete during the 2019 World Masters Athletic Championship in ...
Grace Amid the Chaos
I was drifting off into an impromptu nap when it hit me. From the basement, my son ripped a chord on his electric guitar. The walls reverberated....
Just As I Am
The young woman couldn’t sleep. A person with a lifelong physical disability, she’d be center stage at a church bazaar the next day t...
In All Our Dealings
In 1524, Martin Luther observed: “Among themselves the merchants have a common rule which is their chief maxim . . . I care nothing about m...
Beating as One
Stories have captivated humans since the dawn of creation—functioning as a way to pass down knowledge long before written language existed....
When You’re Afraid
I had a medical check-up scheduled, and although I’d had no recent health concerns, I dreaded the visit. I was haunted by memories of an un...
Christmas-Card Perfect
The Barker family Christmas video was perfect. Three robe-clad shepherds (the family’s young sons) huddled around a fire in a grassy field....
The Power of God’s Word
On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders—became the first humans to enter lunar orbit...
Granny Whale
An Orca whale, who researchers have named “Granny,” apparently knew the importance of her role in the life of her “grandbaby wh...
Bending Low
A young mom followed behind her daughter, who pedaled her tiny bike as fast as her little legs could go. But picking up more speed than she wante...
Treasured Prayer
The Clark’s Nutcracker is an amazing bird. Every year it prepares for winter by hiding tiny caches of four or five whitebark pine seeds, as...
No Cursing
William Shakespeare was a master of the insult, a “quality” that actor Barry Kraft adeptly leverages with his Shakespeare Insult Gene...
Standing Firm by Faith
Nokia became the world’s best-selling mobile phone company in 1998 and saw profits rise to nearly four billion dollars in 1999. But by 2011...
The Miracle of Christmas
At a garage sale, I found a nativity set in a beat-up cardboard box. As I picked up the baby Jesus, I noticed the finely sculpted details of the ...
Just Enough
In the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the character Tevye talks honestly with God about His economics: “You made many, many poor people. I real...
Legacy of Faith
In 2019, research exploring the spiritual heritage of Christians in the US revealed that mothers and grandmothers have a significant influence on...
Friends for Life
William Cowper (1731–1800), the English poet, found a friend in his pastor, John Newton (1725–1807), the former slave trader. Cowper ...
In His Hands
William Shatner played Captain Kirk on the television series Star Trek, but he was unprepared for a real trip into space. He called his eleven-mi...
The Meaning of Life
A short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells of a Roman soldier, Marcus Rufus, who drinks from a “secret river that purifies m...
