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140 illustrations across all 3 chapters
In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led into a concrete cell at Tegel Prison in Berlin, surrounded by the very injustice Habakkuk had lamented three...
In March 2019, floodwaters from the Missouri River swallowed Don Heger's farm near Craig, Missouri — 1,200 acres buried under silt and debris. Neighbors lost...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, weeping over Thomas Clarkson's evidence of the slave trade — iron shackles...
Marcus Briggs had farmed the same 340 acres outside Lubbock, Texas that his grandfather had broken ground on in 1948. In the spring of 2011,...
In 1988, the worst drought in fifty years scorched the plains of central Kansas. Creek beds turned to cracked mud. Cattle stood listless under cloudless...
In Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park, Alpine ibex scale the nearly vertical face of the Cingino Dam — a smooth concrete wall rising 160 feet...
Margaret Ellison walked her withered soybean fields outside Decatur, Illinois, in the summer of 2012. The worst drought in fifty years had turned her 200...
In 1955, Chinese pastor Wang Mingdao stood in a Beijing courtroom and watched everything stripped away. His church on Shi Cha Hai hutong — shuttered....
In 1846, a young mother named Alice Bennett lay dying of gangrene in a London hospital. Dr. Robert Liston told her he would save her...
During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....
In 1847, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have changed medicine overnight. Working in a Vienna maternity ward where one...
Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor, spent fourteen years in communist prisons — three of them in solitary confinement thirty feet beneath Bucharest. He had no...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife...
On November 22, 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at a telegraph office in New York and read a message from his wife that began with two...
Martin Edsel planted his last seeds in April 1988 with borrowed money and a prayer. By August, the Iowa fields that had fed his family...
Clara Montrose stood in her kitchen on a January morning in 1934, staring at three nearly empty shelves. The drought had taken the wheat. The...
In 1948, Romanian secret police dragged Pastor Richard Wurmbrand into an underground prison cell in Bucharest. For three years, he lived in solitary confinement thirty...
On the evening the bank foreclosed on her farm outside Salina, Kansas, Ruth Meyers set the dinner table. White plates on a pressed cloth. Two...
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