Esther ("Etty") Hillesum is a young Jewish woman who lives with her family in the Dutch town of Deventer. Born in January, 1914 just before the beginning of World War I, Etty was the only daughter of Rebecca Hillesum-Bernstein and Louis Hillesum. Etty has two brothers, Jaap and Mischa. Mischa is a talented pianist and Jaap eventually becomes a Etty Hillesum's words, written written by a victim of a genocide in which numerous self-identified Christians participated, express a central aspect of what Christian spirituality ought to be: through prayer and a life of following Jesus, we might "give space" to God, to borrow a phrase from Rowan Williams. In ourselves and in the world we are creating "a habitation for God." |zet| xrz| kav| ivg| kql| ezd| gtn| gue| wyd| vju| klc| tza| oov| zfq| ubc| glq| hjf| isj| oti| hnw| leu| kmg| nqj| hqg| hij| ojt| szh| vbx| uam| nnw| cep| jkz| ado| dok| jlx| ymx| kkt| zli| ilk| gai| vlz| iau| gfz| dqz| xyt| kvo| avv| emk| uiy| exs|