The Casserole Brigade of Tuscaloosa

When the tornado tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama in April 2011, it left a mile-wide scar across the city. Houses flattened. Lives shattered. In the days that followed, reporters descended on the wreckage expecting to find chaos. What they found instead puzzled them. Members of a small church on 15th Street had set up folding tables in a destroyed parking lot, serving hot meals to anyone who walked up — neighbors they knew, strangers they didn't, people of every background.…