35 illustrations referencing Joel
In April 1906, William Joseph Seymour — the son of formerly enslaved parents, blind in one eye, once forced to listen to Bible school lectures...
In 1904, in a rain-soaked Welsh mining village called Loughor, a sixteen-year-old named Evan Roberts stood up in a prayer meeting and wept openly for...
In the spring of 1927, the Mississippi River swelled beyond anything the Army Corps of Engineers had planned for. For decades, they had built levees...
On a humid Wednesday evening in Beaumont, Texas, Margaret Tolliver — seventy-eight years old, arthritic hands folded in her lap — stood up during prayer...
In April 1906, a one-eyed son of former slaves named William Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and began...
In the highland villages of southern Mexico, water is life. For generations in one small pueblo near Oaxaca, a stone reservoir captured the only reliable...
In 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, burst through every barrier the city had built over centuries. Floodwaters did not check credentials at the...
In April 1906, a one-eyed Black preacher named William Joseph Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and watched the...
In the summer of 1993, a drought gripped the farmland outside Broken Bow, Nebraska. For eleven weeks, the fields cracked and the cattle grew thin....
In 1904, in the coal-dusted hills of Loughor, Wales, a twenty-six-year-old former miner named Evan Roberts stood in a small chapel and prayed with such...
Every few years in California's Anza-Borrego Desert, something extraordinary happens. After a season of unusual rain, the barren landscape explodes overnight into a carpet of...
In 2016, hydrologists in Edwards County, Texas, watched something remarkable unfold after years of drought. When the rains finally came to the Edwards Aquifer, the...
On certain nights in Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico, the water catches fire — not with flame, but with light. Millions of dinoflagellates, single-celled organisms no...
In 2004, a swarm of desert locusts descended on West Africa — the worst infestation in fifteen years. Farmers in Mali watched helplessly as clouds...
On April 9, 1906, at a small prayer meeting on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, something broke open that no one could contain. William...
In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the floor of a British Columbia forest. Hidden under the soil, a vast web of...
In Chile's Atacama Desert — one of the driest places on earth — seeds lie buried beneath cracked, barren soil for years, sometimes decades. They...
In 1998, a late frost swept through Margaret Ellison's apple orchard outside Traverse City, Michigan, and killed every blossom on her forty-year-old trees. The next...
In March of 2016, hikers arrived at Death Valley expecting the usual — cracked earth, pale rock, the silence of a landscape that seems to...
In November 2018, the Camp Fire reduced the town of Paradise, California, to ash. Ninety percent of the structures were gone. Residents who returned found...
In the summer of 1993, the small farming community of Hardin, Montana, watched the Bighorn River swell past its banks after weeks of relentless rain....
In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed son of formerly enslaved parents from Centerville, Louisiana — stood in a converted stable on Azusa...
In the sweltering heat of Selma, Alabama, an ordinary Sunday afternoon transformed into an extraordinary moment in history. Picture the scene: the sun beating down on resilient marchers, their faces glistening with determination and hope. Among them were women like...
In the heart of El Salvador during the turbulent 1980s, a humble priest named Oscar Romero stood before his congregation, a mixture of fear and hope swirling in the air like the scent of rain on parched earth. The people...