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Stepping past pharaohs, Assyrian gatekeepers and Roman emperors, we trace a living thread that runs from ancient corridors to the questions right in front of us: what really lasts, and how do we keep going when life gets hard? A noisy afternoon at the British Museum becomes a prompt to see Christian faith not as detached myth but as a story rooted in time, language and real people, with hope breaking into ordinary days like a light in midwinter.

We share ten quick “believe it or not” facts that reframe familiar ground: the Bible as the most stolen and most translated book, the shortest verse that shows Christ’s tears, the fish that marked secret meeting places before the cross took centre stage, and why Greek manuscripts carried Aramaic words to the world. We also unpack how the quest to date Easter reshaped the calendar and how monks preserved science and art through the Middle Ages. Along the way we remember that early churches were homes before they were cathedrals, that a cathedral is simply where the bishop’s chair sits, and that scripture is best seen as a portable library written across fifteen centuries.

Then we turn to people who make us say wow and show us what perseverance looks like. Helen Keller learns language by touch and becomes a global voice. Joni Mitchell loses speech after a brain aneurysm and returns to sing. Malala Yousafzai survives a bullet and wins the Nobel Prize while still studying. Viktor Frankl finds meaning in a concentration camp and offers a map for suffering. Bethany Hamilton surfs again months after losing an arm. Nelson Mandela walks from prison to presidency and invites his guards to witness it. Aron Ralston frees himself beneath a boulder and keeps climbing. Their stories converge with Hebrews 12: throw off what weighs you down, run the race with endurance, and fix your eyes on a hope that does not fail. As Advent draws near, we hold history in one hand and courage in the other, grateful for a baby who turns empires on their heads.

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