The Blood Cries Out
Teenager's Death on the Wall is Still Remembered Almost 50 Years Later
Two teenage boys made a mad dash out of a deserted building, and the guards opened fire with automatic weapons from about fifty...
The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle
BBC Radio 4 ran a compelling show last Friday about The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle--the shredded documents that form the core of my novel, The Puzzle People. As the Berlin Wall was coming down so...
Wind of Change
One of the great things about researching my novel, The Puzzle People, was that I could go to Youtube and see videos taken of the Berlin Wall as it went up in 1961 and then came...
Thousands Protest Removal of Wall
In 1989, tens of thousands of protesters tore down the Berlin Wall. But as The New York Times points out, the irony is that in 2013 people are protesting because they want the Wall to stay...
Poland, 1979: We Want God! We Want God!
In 1979, schoolteachers in Poland were told to inform their students that the man about to visit their country “is our enemy.” Teachers were urged to explain to their classes that this man’s sense...
Why is the Berlin Wall in My Living Room?
Okay, so the Berlin Wall in my living room doesn't quite match the real Wall's dimensions. But it comes close.
The last generation of the Wall before it came down on November 9, 1989, stood...
How Prayer Brought Down the Berlin Wall
This week, as the world observed the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the forgotten stories from the amazing year of 1989 was what took place in Leipzig, East...
The Church From Below
How the Church Helped Bring Down the Berlin Wall
With the last name of "Fuhrer," he made an unlikely German hero.
His full name was Christian Fuhrer, and this pastor led a movement that helped to...
Finding New Life in the Death Strip
An elderly man shoves two packages out of a fourth floor window, and then he crawls out and sits on the ledge, staring down at the ground below. Then slowly, carefully, he turns himself...
