Courage To Stand Up To Injustice

In the direst historical moments, Christian faith has led some to civil disobedience and even martyrdom. Many churchgoers will be familiar with men and women like Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Corrie ten Boom, whose faith led them to defy the Nazi persecution of Jews. A somewhat lesser-known hero is Jane Haining, a missionary of the Church of Scotland who sheltered (or, in the Gestapo’s view, “harboured”) Jewish girls in a Budapest orphanage until her arrest in April 1944. When the Church of Scotlan...