(1892-1983) You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. —Corrie Ten Boom During World War II a 50-year old single woman had a brick wall built through her bedroom to create a “hiding place” for Jews and other fugitives from the… Read more »
Category: Women
Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic woman and member of the Żegota resistance who smuggled children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Evelyn Underhill
Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles mystic and pacifist Evelyn Underhill, the author of Mysticism and Worship and a prophetic influence to this day.
King John Sigismund & Isabella Jagiellon
(1540-1571) & (1519-1559) Each person [should] maintain whatever religious faith he wishes, with old or new rituals, while we at the same time leave it to their judgment to do as they please in the matter of faith, just so long as they bring no harm to bear on anyone at all. —Isabella Jagiellon Transylvania has… Read more »
Juliet Garretson Hollister
(1916-2000) Juliet Hollister was “just a nice little mother,” in her words, when her life was transformed by a vision born over peanut butter sandwiches at her kitchen table. It was 1960, and the Cold War was at its height with nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union and the United States aimed threateningly at each… Read more »