Faith, Fiction, Friends

Paul Hoffman is preparing to defend his doctoral thesis on William Shakespeare’s   The Merchant of Venice.   He’s been navigating his litera...

Alfred Delp  (1907-1945) was born in Manheim, Germany (on the Rhine River near Heidelberg) of a mixed marriage – a Catholic mother and ...

In early 1945, Friedhelm Radandt was 12 years old when he, his mother, and a sister were forced to flee their home in  Pomerania , a re...

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...

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

We recently watched a German mini-series (English subtitles) called Generation War , the story of five young friends in Berlin and what...

All that is left of Wotan is a sword in an empty room, an empty hall, perhaps the hall of the mountain king. Wotan himself has ...

This week, we saw The Book Thief , a movie set in Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II. It’s the story of a young girl wh...