Corrie ten Boom's Father and the Prodigal Nation

In the winter of 1944, Casper ten Boom was eighty-four years old when the Gestapo arrested him for hiding Jewish families in his Haarlem watchshop. His children begged him to stop, to think of his age, his frailty. But Casper had spent decades teaching his sons and daughters to walk in righteousness — literally holding their small hands as they delivered bread to hungry neighbors during the First World War, bending down to show them how to wind a watch spring with patience rather than force.…