The Hat Tip That Tore Open the Sky

In 1940s South Africa, a nine-year-old boy walked beside his mother down a dusty Johannesburg street. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were treated as invisible — or worse. White men did not acknowledge Black women. That was simply the order of things. Then Father Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest working in Sophiatown, approached from the opposite direction. When he reached the boy and his mother, Huddleston did something unthinkable.…