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Inside of the protestant church of Le Chambon
Video: Untitled sermon on anxiety and fear in society given by Pastor André Trocmé in the Temple du Chambon, circa 1950s
Temple door
The Protestant church in Le Chambon with its famous inscription, “Love one another.”
Trocme family picture after arrival in Le Chambon
A portrait of André Trocmé and his family after their arrival in Le Chambon
The co-pastor in Le Chambon and led the École Nouvelle Cévenole.
Pastor Édouard Theis, who worked with Pastor Trocmé in promoting peaceful, non-violent resistance, and also led the École Nouvelle Cévenole school
Theis, Darcissac and Trocme at St. Pual D'eyjeaux
Pastor Édouard Theis, Roger Darcissac, and Pastor André Trocmé imprisoned at St. Paul D'eyjeaux

Spiritual Resistance

Do you admire a similar voice of pacifist resistance in the world today? What role do you think religion played in influencing the rescuers?
reflection

Pastors Trocmé and Theis addressed their parishioners in Le Chambon with the following words: “We face powerful heathen pressures on ourselves and our families, pressures to force us to cave in to this totalitarian ideology. If this ideology cannot immediately subjugate our souls, it will try, at the very least, to make us cave in with our bodies. The duty of Christians is to resist the violence directed at our consciences with the weapons of the spirit… We will resist when our enemies demand that we act in ways that go against the teachings of the Gospel. We will resist without fear, without pride, and without hatred.”