Seldom Wrong, Never in Doubt: There Are No Atheists in the Hanoi Hilton

NRO today excerpts Vietnam POW Leo Thorsness's book Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey on the experience of participating in defiant Christian worship in a North Vietnamese prison camp.

Needless to say, it's a stirring piece. Read it and get stirred.

SWNID Fiction Club Selections

A Bend in the River
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
A Tale of Two Cities
An American Tragedy
Catch-22
Chronicles of Narnia
Crime and Punishment
David Copperfield
Death Comes to the Archbishop
Deep River
East of Eden
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flowers for Algernon
God: Stories
Great Expectations
Harry Potter and [All Titles]
Huckleberry Finn
I Hear America Swinging
I, Claudius
In the Beauty of the Lillies
In the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
Jude the Obscure
Les Misérables
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Memories of the Ford Administration
Moby Dick
Month of Sundays
Mr. Ives' Christmas
My Antonia
Native Son
Never Let Me Go
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Peace Like a River
Pigeon Feathers
Portugese Irregular Verbs
Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Run
Roger's Version
Saint Maybe
Selected Stories (Alice Munro)
Silas Marner
Silence
Slaughterhouse Five
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Tartarin de Tarascon
The Age of Innocence
The Blood of the Lamb
The Brothers Karamazov
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
The Girl I Left Behind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Heart of the Matter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Idiot
The Kite Runner
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Red Pony
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Samurai
The Sound and the Fury
The Violent Bear It Away
The Way of All Flesh
The Winter of Our Discontent
To Kill a Mockingbird
War and Peace
Wise Blood

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Friday, April 10, 2009

There Are No Atheists in the Hanoi Hilton

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