The Morning the Eclipse Turned Strangers into a Congregation
On April 8, 2024, in a wide-open field outside Fredericksburg, Texas, three thousand strangers stood shoulder to shoulder, wearing cardboard glasses and clutching lawn chairs....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 98.
On April 8, 2024, in a wide-open field outside Fredericksburg, Texas, three thousand strangers stood shoulder to shoulder, wearing cardboard glasses and clutching lawn chairs. They had driven from Houston, Dallas, even Chicago — all for four minutes and twenty seconds of totality. When the moon finally swallowed the sun, something unscripted happened. The temperature dropped ten degrees in moments.…
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