Christopher Lovelace

Christopher Lovelace is a native of Indianapolis and graduate of Wabash College. In addition to his underaduate degree in Spanish and Russian, Chris holds an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary (Lansdale, Pennsylvania).

Chris has been an accidental resident and occasional wanderer in various countries. He has lived, worked, or travelled in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Chris is probably best known as the translator of A Path Not Lined With Roses, which is a testimony to God's faithfulness and an account of Peter Rumachik's stalwart faith - and the faith of his family - as he was wrongfully imprisoned in the brutal Soviet GULAG for over 18 years. This early publication naturally led to Mr. Lovelace's translation of similar works, one dealing with the concentration camp at Terezín (published as Poets at the Crossroads), and Moscow Express and Other Stories, encompassing some of the final memoirs of Russian pastor Georgi Vins.

As Chris describes it in his own words, "After my third book dealing with concentration camps and their survivors, I felt that I had somehow been inducted into a very special community tasked with an awesome and humbling responsibility to see that these dark and disturbing images are forever part of our history. We must exert every effort to see that people never forget, to insure that these abuses that happened - and that continue to happen in so many parts of the world - can never be erased by the night and fog of ignorance or amnesia. It is a privilege to be part of helping these testaments live on."