The Bread on the Hillside

In the summer of 1680, Scottish Covenanters gathered in secret on the windswept slopes of the Ayrshire moors, risking imprisonment and death for the simple act of sharing the Lord's Supper. The British Crown had outlawed their worship, and dragoons patrolled the countryside hunting for these illegal communion services. Yet hundreds came — farmers, weavers, mothers with children — climbing through heather and fog to reach long wooden tables draped in white linen across the open hillside.…