Our Father Who Art in an Iron Lung

In 1955, Bruce Dodd contracted polio, leaving him completely paralyzed and dependent on a respirator for the rest of his life. His four children were all under the age of seven.

What followed was not only a story of suffering, but of enduring love, quiet faith, and a family held together by a father who could no longer move, yet never stopped teaching them how to live.

For twenty-one years, much of it spent inside an iron lung, Bruce defied the limits of his body to become a devoted husband, ...