When the Bombs Stopped Falling

During the London Blitz of 1940, as Luftwaffe bombers darkened the skies night after night, something remarkable happened in the churches of England. Sanctuaries that had sat half-empty for a generation suddenly overflowed. Families who hadn't prayed since childhood crowded into St. Paul's Cathedral, into parish churches across the East End, into any open door where a candle still burned.…