Unfortunately, the police were interested in me and my writings; I was arrested and interrogated in Debrecen for about a year.

I felt during this writing that God really filled me up with an inner joy.

Though some professors and students were silenced out of fear, the spirit of the revolution continued to ferment in seminaries.

To understand the context of Daniel Szabo’s story, I went back to, The Lean Years, a small book by Gyula Gombos, a Hungarian Reformed pa...

"I remembered the way my family behaved . . . not compelled to act in reaction . . . but to look out for those in need. "

We were not thinking about political movements, but about communities, persecuted people, poor people, needy situations . . .

This post marks a shift away from Romania and Ukraine to Hungary and the testimonies of Daniel Szabo and Joszef Berenyi.

Even though the enduring and grinding poverty created a cloud of sadness that touched Emma’s heart, it did not crush her spirit.

The real victims were the spies and those who tortured. They are the ones who lost their souls.

To understand Gulacsy’s camp life more fully, one only needs to read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The first Gulacsy story ended rather precipitously, it does continue for a few installments.

Meet Lajos Gulacsy, another Reformed pastor who survived Soviet hospitality.

I must have absorbed fear from conversations at home because, as a child the word Siberia made me shiver.

Early in the conversation Dolorosa told us that Psalm 16, sung and preached in church, led to her confession of faith.

When I met the Horkasy in 2003, a spirit of peace and joy filled their small sitting room.