Calamities


The Age of Calamities
The Titanic and the City of Widows It Left Behind: The Forgotten Victims of the Fatal Voyage
Unsinkable: The Full Story Of The RMS Titanic
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
The Children's Blizzard
The Children's Blizzard
Saving the Donner Party: And Forlorn Hope
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
When Winter Comes
Across the Plains in the Donner Party
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
Cocoanut Grove
For Fear We Shall Perish
Charlotte Brontë
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
Charlotte Brontë, Villette

John      Piper
God is giving the world in the coronavirus outbreak, as in all other calamities, a physical picture of the moral horror and spiritual ugliness of God-belittling sin... Here’s my suggestion: God put the physical world under a curse so that the physical horrors we see around us in diseases and calamities would become a vivid picture of how horrible sin is. In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God... Calamities are God’s ...more
John Piper, Coronavirus and Christ

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