Jesus Is Alive: Corrie Ten Boom
The resurrection of Jesus is much more than a historical curiosity. His living presence is known and loved by millions of people through the centuries and across the globe.
One of these is Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983), a Dutch holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in concentration camps because of her efforts to rescue Jews trying to escape the spread of Nazism. She is recognized as one of the "Righteous among the nations." She related the story of her capture, the strange circumstances of her release, and her struggle to gain healing from the physical and psychological wounds inflicted on her by her Nazi oppressors. Jesus was very much alive in her life, as recounted in her book The Hiding Place (Boom, 1971). The book was made into a 1975 movie starring Julie Harris and Arthur O’Connell. Jesus was not merely a historical person to Corrie; he was alive, and the Bible was true, prompting her heroic life and working in her healing and sense of joy in the aftermath of the great ordeal.
My wife and I lived in the same part of California and were privileged to hear her speak. Back in 1978 we visited the family watch shop in Haarlem, the Netherlands. To her, her father, and her dear sister Betsie (both of whom were killed in concentration camps), Jesus was very much alive. To me, she is one of the great twentieth-century heroes of the faith.
https://www.museumofthebible.org/exhibits/light-of-hope
This blog article was based on my book: Five Languages of Evidence: How to Speak about Reasons for Christianity in a Post-truth World. Not yet published; available upon request.
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