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by Pastor Jacob Pull a slingshot's bands back. The pouch moves in exactly the opposite direction it's meant to go. Stretched tight. Moving backward. Then it's released. And the backward movement turns out to be the very thing that gives it momentum. Most of us know what that feels like. A job ends sooner than you expected. A relationship gets harder instead of easier. A plan you built real hope around starts to unravel. It can feel like you're losing ground. Like life is moving away from the...

Summer is almost here in Champaign-Urbana, which means there are pools going up in backyards across the area. Especially if you grew up here, you know there's a trick to those above-ground pools. You get a few people walking the same direction around the perimeter, and at first it's slow — you're pushing against still water, making your own current from nothing. But then someone else jumps in behind you. Then another. And before long you're not really swimming at all. The water is moving...

Carl Bushby made a bet in a pub in 1998. He was 29, at the southern tip of South America, and someone asked whether it was still possible to walk around the world — no planes, no motors, no shortcuts. Carl said yes. So he flew home, then flew back to that same spot, and started walking north. They estimated it would take 12 to 13 years. He's been walking for 27. Here's what stops you when you dig into the story. Of those 27 years, Carl has spent 13 of them actually walking. The other 14?...