The Widow Who Walked Back Into the Jungle

In January 1958, Elisabeth Elliot packed her bags, gathered her three-year-old daughter Valerie, and flew back into the Ecuadorian rainforest — to live among the very Waodani tribespeople who had speared her husband Jim to death on a riverbank just two years earlier. No one would have blamed her for refusing. She had every reason to stay home in the States, to grieve quietly, to raise her daughter in safety.…