32 illustrations referencing Habakkuk
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
In A Quiet Place, the Abbott family survives alien invasion by living in absolute silence. Any sound draws lethal creatures. They communicate in sign language, walk barefoot, eat without silverware. S
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...
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...
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 2010, Haitian worship leader Dieumème Noelliste lost everything in the Port-au-Prince earthquake — his home, his church building, three members of his congregation. For...
In 1857, Frederick Law Olmsted stood before New York's city commissioners with plans to transform 843 acres of swampland, pig farms, and squatter shanties into...
High in California's White Mountains, at nearly 10,000 feet, the bristlecone pines cling to slopes of bare dolomite rock. The soil is almost powder. Rainfall...
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....
Scientists who study the Nubian ibex — the wild mountain goat of the Sinai Peninsula — have spent years puzzling over how the animal navigates...
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 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 Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park, Alpine ibex scale the nearly vertical face of the Cingino Dam — a smooth concrete wall rising 160 feet...
High in the White Mountains of eastern California, where the soil is almost pure limestone and rainfall barely reaches ten inches a year, stands a...
High in California's White Mountains, at nearly 12,000 feet, stands a bristlecone pine named Methuselah. It has endured for over 4,800 years in conditions that...
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 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 1846, a young mother named Alice Bennett lay dying of gangrene in a London hospital. Dr. Robert Liston told her he would save her...
In 2012, Tom Neuhaus watched his corn wither across 1,200 acres outside Lincoln, Nebraska. The worst drought in fifty years had turned his fields to...
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...
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...
In 1637, the German pastor Martin Rinkart looked out over his walled city of Eilenburg and saw a community stripped of everything. The Thirty Years'...
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...