Candles Behind the Wall @CandlesBook
Barbara Elliott’s book about the heroes from the Peaceful Revolution that toppled the Berlin Wall. 2nd edition coming out November 2019. Houston Joined December 2018-
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution, Barbara Elliott was the keynote speaker at the Free Enterprise Institute's Founders' Breakfast. You can watch her full speech here! youtube.com/watch?v=V8K72x…
The #BerlinWall fell 30 years ago today! The East Germans had begun peaceful marches through their cities. The wall fell on the night of their 7th march, in an astonishing echo of Jericho. #peacefulrevolution
Yesterday Barbara Elliott was the keynote speaker at The Free Enterprise Institute’s Founder’s Breakfast. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution, she told stories from Candles Behind the Wall about the heroes of the revolution.
57 years ago today. A conscientious guard stationed by the memorial that marked Peter's death decided he would refuse to shoot and convinced 40 other border guards to join him in his decision.
58 years ago today, the Berlin Wall went up overnight. People in East Berlin were trapped there, and few got out until 1989.
Interesting article sharing stories about what it was like to be a scientist behind the Berlin Wall. sciencehistory.org/distillations/…
Some schoolteachers in East Germany during the '80s had their classrooms monitored and were refused advancement because they didn’t want to join the Communist party.
“Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.” #Solzhenitsyn
On this day in 1987, President Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and delivered his famous line, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Two years later, the Berlin Wall was breached.
40 years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first visit to his homeland as pope, starting a spiritual revival in Poland that would play a vital part in the #PeacefulRevolution.
"One word of #truth shall outweigh the whole world" - Alexander #Solzhenitsyn
“If there are to be salvific revolutions in our future, they must be moral ones — that is, a certain new phenomenon, which we have yet to discover, discern, and bring to life.” #Solzhenitsyn
Before he became Pope, John Paul II would take young people kayaking so they could discuss questions about the faith without being overheard. Free speech required some creativity under Communism.
To escape the government-controlled and spied upon churches, some Christians in the Soviet Union met in the woods. Imagine doing that in the subzero Russian winters!
“Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society.” #Solzhenitsyn
“[In] the 1920’s in the USSR ... tens of thousands of priests, monks, and nuns, pressured by the Chekists to renounce the Word of God, were tortured, shot in cellars, sent to camps, exiled to the desolate tundra of the far North, or turned out into the streets in their old age.”
In the Soviet Union, Christians were often baptized in their bathtubs with towels stuffed under the doorways to cover the sound of the splashing. Why? The Soviet authorities wanted a list of every person baptized so they could keep closer watch on those people.
TODAY IN HISTORY: Remembering the events of the Peaceful Revolution 30 years ago. #candlesbehindthewall #nonfiction #book #history
If only there were evil people somewhere...committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human... And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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