The Father Who Sang Through the Storm

In 1994, a tornado swept through Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, during Palm Sunday worship. Twenty people died. In the wreckage that followed, rescue workers found a father named Dale Clem kneeling in the rubble, cradling his four-year-old daughter Hannah. She had survived. Witnesses said that when they pulled debris away, Dale was humming — not a hymn exactly, just a low, steady sound pressed against the top of her head.…