Daniel, the Bishop, and Forgiveness
Of all the stories from 2003, this one best reveals a quality that marked the men and women we interviewed, a spirit of forgiveness and...
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
Daniel and Three Men of the Cloth
In this blog post, Daniel Szabo reflects on Janos Peter and Tibor Bartha, bishops in Debrecen, Hungary’s Reformed “Jerusalem.” Szabo also...
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 7, 2021
- 6 min
Ilona Racsok - Chemist and Pastor
At the end of his life, Jozsef Berenyi saw reasons for hope, and one sign was his daughter, Ilona Racsok. Only after the changes of 1989...
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Beth Lantinga
- Jan 27, 2021
- 4 min
Honored Preacher - Country Parson
Berenyi's story reflects the relentless pressure on the Christian church during communist days.
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Beth Lantinga
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
Living in a Materialist World
The new year is upon us with all its complications, hopes, and fears. I want to wish all my readers many blessed moments of daily...
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Beth Lantinga
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
Jozsef Berenyi - Renewed
Jozsef Berenyi, a retired pastor whose story revealed the unsettling reality that Reformed church leaders willingly chose to collaborate.
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Beth Lantinga
- Dec 8, 2020
- 5 min
Over the Border And Into Ukraine
. For Daniel, trust was not an abstract concept, but something he put into practice.
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Beth Lantinga
- Dec 1, 2020
- 6 min
Into the Underground
It’s all right to cry, but we may not stop with the crying; we must also work. The Lord helped me commit myself to underground work.
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Beth Lantinga
- Nov 24, 2020
- 6 min
And Then the Police
Unfortunately, the police were interested in me and my writings; I was arrested and interrogated in Debrecen for about a year.
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Beth Lantinga
- Nov 16, 2020
- 7 min
A Change of Plans
I felt during this writing that God really filled me up with an inner joy.
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Beth Lantinga
- Nov 11, 2020
- 6 min
Daniel Szabo: Seminary Rebel
Though some professors and students were silenced out of fear, the spirit of the revolution continued to ferment in seminaries.
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Beth Lantinga
- Nov 2, 2020
- 8 min
The Student World of Daniel Szabo
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...
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Beth Lantinga
- Oct 17, 2020
- 5 min
A Reluctant Seminarian
"I remembered the way my family behaved . . . not compelled to act in reaction . . . but to look out for those in need. "
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Beth Lantinga
- Oct 12, 2020
- 7 min
The Formation of a Preacher's Kid
We were not thinking about political movements, but about communities, persecuted people, poor people, needy situations . . .
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Beth Lantinga
- Oct 7, 2020
- 4 min
A CIRCLE OF FAITH
This post marks a shift away from Romania and Ukraine to Hungary and the testimonies of Daniel Szabo and Joszef Berenyi.
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