The Prisoner of Ava Who Built a Nation's Faith

In 1824, Adoniram Judson lay in chains on the floor of Ava Prison in Burma, his ankles lashed to a bamboo pole hoisted so high that only his shoulders and head touched the ground. Mosquitoes blackened his skin. Fever came in waves. He had labored in Burma for eleven years with almost nothing to show for it — a handful of converts, a child buried in foreign soil, and a half-finished translation of the Bible into Burmese hidden in a hard pillow his wife Ann smuggled past the guards.…