584 illustrations referencing Jeremiah
A famous artist was creating his masterpiece when his young apprentice accidentally knocked over a jar of black paint, splattering it across the canvas. The apprentice was horrified, certain he had ru...
Jeremiah Jeremiah, a prophet in Jerusalem before its destruction in 586 BC, is sometimes called the “weeping prophet” because he shared his personal struggles and sorrows as he delivered God’s messag
Baruch Baruch the son of Neriah was a royal scribe in Jerusalem who served as secretary for Jeremiah the prophet. His brother Seraiah was a “staff officer” in Zedekiah’s administration (Jer 51:59-64)
Jeremiah Jeremiah, a prophet in Jerusalem before its destruction in 586 BC, is sometimes called the “weeping prophet” because he shared his personal struggles and sorrows as he delivered God’s messag
Baruch Baruch the son of Neriah was a royal scribe in Jerusalem who served as secretary for Jeremiah the prophet. His brother Seraiah was a “staff officer” in Zedekiah’s administration (Jer 51:59-64)
In 2009, Detroit was a city the world had written off. Factories stood hollow. Entire neighborhoods lay abandoned, with houses selling for a dollar. Financial...
In 2019, seventeen-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in a chair far too large for her small frame, facing a room full of seasoned politicians in the...
When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...
During the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, as Nazi forces strangled the city and nearly a million civilians starved, a small group of Soviet scientists faced...
When Toyota closed its assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 2020 for pandemic retooling, hundreds of temporary workers found themselves relocated to a facility in...
In 2018, a small church in rural Kentucky lost its pastor to scandal. Within months, two elders began fighting over control of the congregation. One...
On April 14, 1935 — a day survivors called "Black Sunday" — a wall of dust two thousand feet high rolled across the Oklahoma panhandle,...
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans whole. When the waters finally receded, Robert Green came back to find...
In 1786, a twenty-five-year-old cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of seasoned Baptist ministers in Northampton, England. He posed a simple question: Did...
When Amanda Gorman was a child in Los Angeles, she could barely get through a sentence. A speech impediment made the letter R nearly impossible...
In 1960, the Aral Sea straddled the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the fourth-largest lake on earth. Fishing boats crowded its ports. Children swam...
The feather drifts through the opening and closing of Forrest Gump—carried by winds it cannot control, landing where it will. Forrest wonders: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all
In 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, school bus driver Kevin McKay refused to abandon his route. With flames closing in on...
In 312 AD, Roman engineers completed the Aqua Claudia, one of the most magnificent aqueducts ever built — forty-six miles of precisely graded channels carrying...
In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantès is betrayed by his best friend and imprisoned for fourteen years. He emerges with treasure, new identity, and elaborate revenge. But the revenge brings no p
For forty-three years, Maria Cristina Alvarez made her mother's tamales every Christmas Eve in her small kitchen in San Antonio. In the early years, she...
In 1941, as German forces encircled Leningrad, the scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry faced an unthinkable test. Inside their walls sat one...
Josiah Wedgwood opened his first pottery works in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1759. He became the most celebrated potter in English history — but what made...
In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan switched its water source from the Detroit system — clean, treated, reliable — to the Flint River, a...