Be Our Voice

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'From my very soul I wish you a long life and all strength on the battlefield of faith.' (Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a letter to Michael Bourdeaux)
'Tell the West the story of my people's sufferings,' begged a young Russian Baptist girl in the early 1960s. There seemed then no way of letting an unknown Soviet believer's voice be heard until Michael Bourdeaux, winnerofthe 1984 Templeton Prize, made it his life's work to speak for the silenced, restricted and persecuted churches of the communist world.
Michael Bourdeaux, an Anglican priest, founded Keston College, the institute for the study of religion in communist countries. This book telis the story of how its work has grown, as the result of one man's vision, from a crumpled travel-worn document to an award-winning research institute whose integrity is valued wherever people love freedom.
Be Our Voice is about believers like Aida of Leningrád and the Siberian Seven who sacrifice status, family life, health, freedom, even... Tovább

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'From my very soul I wish you a long life and all strength on the battlefield of faith.' (Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a letter to Michael Bourdeaux)
'Tell the West the story of my people's sufferings,' begged a young Russian Baptist girl in the early 1960s. There seemed then no way of letting an unknown Soviet believer's voice be heard until Michael Bourdeaux, winnerofthe 1984 Templeton Prize, made it his life's work to speak for the silenced, restricted and persecuted churches of the communist world.
Michael Bourdeaux, an Anglican priest, founded Keston College, the institute for the study of religion in communist countries. This book telis the story of how its work has grown, as the result of one man's vision, from a crumpled travel-worn document to an award-winning research institute whose integrity is valued wherever people love freedom.
Be Our Voice is about believers like Aida of Leningrád and the Siberian Seven who sacrifice status, family life, health, freedom, even sanity and life itself for their faith. It is a book about the facts of fearful brutality. But it is alsó about the light that shines from those who suffer. Within the remarkable assur-ance and apparently unquenchable nature of their spiritual certainty lies alsó a lack of bitterness and the extraordinary possibility of forgiveness. The book is alsó about a team of highly qualified people who care about justice and the right to believe. The work of Keston is to make the facts of faith and persecution known. It has become the major channel for 'teliing the West'.
Jenny Robertson is the author of a number of books for the Scripture Union including the Ladybird Bible books. Her husband, an Episcopal priest in Leith and a member of the Edinburgh Keston Support Group, met Aida in 1961 in Leningrád, where he had gone to study. Aida's story has challenged Jenny Robertson all her married life, while the spirituality of the persecuted churches has been a constant source of faith, hope and strength. Vissza