The Monday Prayers of Leipzig
On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand East German citizens filled the streets of Leipzig, carrying candles in the autumn darkness. The communist regime had stationed...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9.
On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand East German citizens filled the streets of Leipzig, carrying candles in the autumn darkness. The communist regime had stationed troops and armored vehicles throughout the city, prepared to repeat the massacre of Tiananmen Square just months earlier. Hospitals quietly cleared beds, expecting mass casualties. The earth, it seemed, was about to give way. But these marchers had come from St.…
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