Tomáš Bísek, Part 2: Language made ministering in Scotland tough

Tomáš Bísek spent 11 years as a clergyman in Scotland before returning
to his native Prague in the mid-1990s. An early signatory of the Charter 77
protest document, the Protestant cleric had been a victim of Operation
Asanace (Clearance), under which the Communists used mental and physical
pressure to force dissidents to leave Czechoslovakia. Mr. Bísek had
studied in the US and – in the second half of a two-part interview –
told me the secret police may have expected him to return there rather than
opting for Scotland in 1985.

Published: 
Monday, December 7, 2015