Tag: Corrie ten Boom

How Shall We then Respond?

On this day in 1587, Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. We didn’t make it to Roanoke Island this summer, so I can’t really tell you what happened to The Lost Colony. But the history, both real and speculative, is …

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365 Things I Believe: Worry

Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom was born on this day in 1892. Along with her father and other family members, she helped numerous Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She died on her birthday, April 15, 1983. She was 91. Her family was arrested in 1944. Her father 10 days later at …

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