Andre Trocme News Today

President's Day is a good time to consider the tension between faith and power.

Picking funeral music

From the blog of Aaron David Fruh at The Times of Israel

Europe's Christian heritage is its deepest source of tolerance.

We are called to be present in the midst of the worst evils, not proposing policies that God would endorse, or solutions stamped with divine approval, but rather as witnesses of hope, of the possibility of transformation, and of an insistence that a better way is possible.

Love in a Time of Hate: The Story of Magda and Andrew Trocme and the Village That Said No to the Nazis by Hanna Schott; translated by John D. Roth. Herald Press (Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2017). 269 pp., $16.99.

Austrian Jew Leaves Fortune to French Town that Saved His Life Eric Schwam was one of over 3,000 Jews saved by the residents in one small French town. When Vienna-born Jew Eric Schwam recently passed away at the age of 90, he left an unusual bequest. He left the small fortune he’d managed to save up in a lifetime working in the pharmaceutical field to Le Chambon sur Lignon, a town of fewer than 2,500 people in southeastern France. Eighty years ago, the residents of Le Chambon sur Lignon saved...