151 illustrations referencing Revelation
At the end of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo cannot stay in the Shire. His wounds are too deep; Middle-earth holds too much pain. So he sails to the Undying Lands—where suffering ends, where wounds heal
In 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup—a free Black man kidnapped into slavery—survives twelve years of horror. The injustice is so vast it seems unstoppable, a river of evil. Amos cried: "Let justice r
Roman Emperors (27 BC–AD 96) Augustus (Octavian) (27 BC–AD 14) Became the first Roman emperor after defeating Marc Antony at the battle of Actium (31 BC); ruled with wisdom and good administration; g
Roman Emperors (27 BC–AD 96) Augustus (Octavian) (27 BC–AD 14) Became the first Roman emperor after defeating Marc Antony at the battle of Actium (31 BC); ruled with wisdom and good administration; g
On April 15, 1945, British soldiers rolled through the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. What they found defied description — thousands of unburied dead, tens...
In June 1886, forty-five young men were marched to the hill at Namugongo, Uganda, bound in reed mats and laid on a slow-burning pyre. King...
Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the Great Hall on Ellis Island. They arrived speaking Yiddish, Italian, Greek, Mandarin, Polish,...
In March 2022, as Russian missiles struck Kyiv, a young mother named Mariana went into labor in the basement of a maternity hospital. Doctors had...
In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom lay dying on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body wasted by malnutrition and forced labor. Her...
In the longleaf pine forests of the American Southeast, something remarkable happens after a prescribed burn. Park rangers at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida...
Margaret Chen sang to her husband David every night of his final three months. Not hymns — though she knew hundreds — but the same...
In 356 AD, imperial soldiers stormed a church in Alexandria, Egypt, with orders to arrest Bishop Athanasius. The Arian heresy — which denied the full...
In the longleaf pine forests of the American Southeast, fire is not the enemy — it is the agent of renewal. The U.S. Forest Service...
On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians —...
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the chaotic aftermath, medical teams set up field hospitals in parking lots...
For eleven years after Hurricane Katrina swallowed her shotgun house on Pauline Street, Margaret Thibodaux carried a folded scrap of paper in her coat pocket....
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand inside the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes, a circular stone fortress rising from the marshlands of southern...
For eleven years, Dorothy Ainsworth bathed her husband, tied his shoes, and answered the same question — "Do I know you?" — sometimes forty times...
Margaret Owens spent forty-three years in the same clapboard house on Greensburg Street in New Orleans. She raised four children there, buried her husband from...
Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher spent years capturing human tears under a microscope for her project *The Topography of Tears*. What she found startled scientists: tears of...
Dear God of Love and Justice, I confess that I have held a screen in my hand while my child tugged at my sleeve, asking me to watch them jump. I have scrolled past real suffering to find something easier...
On February 24, 2022, when Russian missiles began striking Kyiv, doctors and nurses at the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital rushed newborns from the maternity ward into...
In 2011, a massive EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded 200 miles per hour. Houses became kindling....
On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...