An Australian potato farmer proves that it's not how you start a race, but how you finish one, with his unexpected win of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61 years of age.
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Juliane Koepcke was a German Peruvian high school senior student studying in Lima, intending to become a zoologist, like her parents. She and her mother, ornithologist Maria Kopecke, were traveling to meet with her father, biologist Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, who was working in the city of Pucallpa. The airplane was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and broke up in mid-air, disintegrating at 10,000 ft. Koepcke, who was seventeen years old, fell to earth still strapped into her seat.
Designed by a group of visionary engineers including Joseph Straus, at 4,200-feet long of actual suspension span, the Golden Gate was at one time the longest suspension bridge in the world—but today, it’s not even in the top ten. While the world-famous bridge was named as one of the seven wonders of the modern world, few know the history behind its construction and the brave men known as the “halfway to hell club.”
A challenge to wayward youth to think about the consequences of their actions, change course, and make something of their lives. Judge Colvin, of Bibb Superior Court, tells it like it is.
How did we get here? I mean, how did Christianity come to look more like a building and a pulpit, communion crackers, and congregation size. Wake up!
A life of faith isn’t supposed to be safe and simple. It’s a process. A piece of art is not perfect, but it is beautiful. There is beauty in the imperfection of people and there is joy in the life that is given even to those who do not and cannot deserve it.
It’s time, Church. It’s time to bring these dry bones back to life.
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