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My six-year-old nephew dragged his broken leg across seven blocks of pavement to reach my porch, with his starving three-year-old sister clinging to his shirt. I was fixing a loose hinge when I heard scraping on the steps and turned to see Drew crawling toward me, pale, shaking, and whispering, “She locked us downstairs again.” I called 911 before I even understood the whole story. But when he told me about Reena’s punishment room, I knew my brother had died believing a terrible lie.

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themselves.

“You were willing to let me lose everything.”

“That was never going to happen.”

“You couldn’t guarantee that.”

“Dad has always found a way through.”

There it was—the faith that had shaped him.

Gerald could not fail. He could only be misunderstood, obstructed, or betrayed. Anyone harmed in the process was expected to absorb the loss for the sake continue reading …

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