Eric Liddell and the Internment Camp Garden

In 1943, Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter whose story inspired Chariots of Fire — found himself behind the walls of the Weihsien internment camp in Japanese-occupied China. He had not chosen this place. He had come to China as a missionary, not a prisoner. Yet behind that barbed wire, Liddell made a decision that echoed across the centuries to the exiles of Babylon.…