Joel Miller explains “What banning this book says about the future of our society,” talking about the Springs Charter Schools removing Christian books from their circulation. That book is Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place.

Rod Dreher describes a bit of how it changed him. “Reading The Hiding Place as a kid dramatically affected me. The moral heroism of the ten Booms sensitized me to the effects of anti-Semitism, and taught me what Christians must do if ever we are in a situation where persecuted people rely on us for protection.”

Miller writes, “Given this Christian impulse to identify with the oppressed and save those in danger, to remove The Hiding Place from library shelves betrays a sort of societal self-defeat, and similar examples multiply as our culture fumbles toward a more rigorously enforced secularity. We’re like the cannibal committing suicide one nibble at a time.” (via Prufrock)