Faith, Fiction, Friends

We were living in Houston in the mid-1970s when I first heard of Corrie ten Boom and the story she had to tell in The Hiding Place . Th...

In The Hiding Place , Corrie ten Boom describes a few of the last things her sister Betsie tells her before she dies in the hospital at...

Fleas were a constant pest in the barracks at Ravensbruck, the women’s concentration camp some 56 miles north of Berlin where Corrie an...

We’ve reached the point in The Hiding Place where Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie have been arrested for helping Jews hide and e...

What do you see when you see a homeless person sleeping in a cardboard box in a city park? What do you see when you look at a co-wo...

You’re imprisoned for months. You know your elderly father has died, only 10 days after the family was arrested. Your sister is somewhe...

As Corrie ten Boom describes in   The Hiding Place ,   after their arrest in Haarlem in February 1944, members of the ten Boom family a...

Corrie ten Boom is lying in bed, trying to recover from the flu. It is the morning of Feb. 28, 1944, in Haarlem in The Netherlands. In ...

I was in third grade. Our class had an elderly, rather strict teacher who was nearing retirement and not prone to any kind of disobedie...

When it came to participating in an underground organization, especially one fighting the highly efficient Nazi war machine, everything...

It is two years into the Nazi occupation of Holland. Each month, Corrie ten Boom writes in The Hiding Place , the occupation grew harsh...

Haarlem, The Netherlands, September, 1939. A family of aging sisters, and an elderly father and aunt, listen to the assurances of the D...