Eric Liddell's Quiet Certainty at Weihsien

In February 1945, the Weihsien internment camp in northern China was a place of dust, disease, and dwindling rations. Eighteen hundred civilians — missionaries, teachers, businesspeople — crowded behind its gray walls under Japanese guard. Among them was Eric Liddell, the Scottish Olympic champion whose refusal to run on Sunday at the 1924 Paris Games had made him famous worldwide.…