The Oak That Grew from Occupied Soil

In 1982, a pastor named Václav Malý stood before a secret congregation in a Prague basement. Czechoslovakia had been under Communist rule for over thirty years. Churches were shuttered. Clergy were forced into factory jobs. Malý himself worked as a stoker, shoveling coal by day and preaching the gospel by night in cramped apartments. He told his people something remarkable: "God has not forgotten His promise to this land."…