…when something with which you have been actively involved becomes the stuff of memoirs..
Keston College was an excellent institution run by Rev Michael Bourdeaux, which chronicled the plight of Christians and other religious believers under Communism. It did a most useful job, and highlighted some of the courageous men and women who spoke up for truth and human dignity under a cruel regime and often suffered hideously in prisons or labour camps in the USSR as a result.
Michael’s new book telling the Keston story is a good read. As I got into it, I was fascinated to learn how the project began, and then rather moved to reconnect with people who over the years became part of the story. It felt strange to come across, suddenly, a quotation from a letter in the Catholic Herald by some one called Joanna Nash, calling for more public action on behalf of persecuted Christians…