Corrie ten Boom and the Yielded Body

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood inside the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped bare alongside her sister Betsie and hundreds of other women. Guards had seized every possession — clothes, jewelry, the small Bible she had smuggled past four previous inspections. Her body, emaciated and lice-bitten, seemed to belong entirely to her captors. Yet Corrie later wrote that in that moment of absolute physical vulnerability, she understood something profound: her body had never belonged to her in the first place.…