16 illustrations referencing Hosea
In 1987, a man named Robert Fulghum told the story of a father in Athens, Greece, whose son had run away from home. The father,...
In 2019, a foster father named Marcus Cole in Memphis, Tennessee, adopted three siblings — ages four, six, and nine — whose birth mother had...
In the fourth century, a North African mother named Monica watched her brilliant son Augustine abandon everything she had taught him. He took a concubine...
In 1994, Dr. Erica Chen volunteered at a medical clinic in rural Guatemala. One afternoon, a young mother named Sofía carried in her three-year-old son,...
In 2014, a church in Decatur, Georgia, shuttered its Thursday night soup kitchen. The reason was practical — they needed the fellowship hall cleared for...
For fourteen years, David Chen of Portland, Oregon, left his porch light on every single night. His daughter, Mei, had walked out at seventeen after...
In 2019, a journalist in Nashville profiled a man named David Chen who had kept his front porch light on every single night for eleven...
In the Roman Empire, unwanted newborns were carried to the city dump and left on mounds of ash and refuse. Romans called the practice "exposure"...
In 1987, a woman named Dorothy Pennington kept the most spotless kitchen in all of Decatur, Georgia. Her copper pots gleamed. Her tile grout was...
In 1748, John Newton was a slave trader sailing the West African coast, a man so profane that even hardened sailors flinched at his blasphemy....
In 1987, Margaret Ellison of Tupelo, Mississippi, kept a pristine house. Every Sunday she arranged fresh-cut hydrangeas on the foyer table, polished the silver until...
In the years before World War II, Corrie ten Boom's father Casper kept a watchmaker's shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. What few people remember is how...
In 1988, a peach farmer named Harold Gentry in Chilton County, Alabama, watched his orchard wither through the worst drought in forty years. Every tree...
For eleven months, David Chen left the porch light on at his home in Portland, Oregon. His daughter Mei had walked out after a terrible...
In 1988, a wildfire swept through the hills outside Yellowstone, charring over 790,000 acres. Rangers and tourists alike mourned what seemed like irreversible devastation. Blackened...
Teaching on Solitude and Silence from Amma Syncletica: Desert Mothers: Amma Syncletica on Solitude