bonhoeffer

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.

Jonathan Augustine makes a strong case for preaching that is both divinely inspired and socially determined.

Eve Fairbanks traces the experiences of three South Africans to diagnose the country’s unrealized promises.

Peter Hooten considers the concept in relationship to the theologian’s entire body of work.

Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline

John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

I’ve seen a bumper sticker that says, “What would Atticus do?”—a tribute to Atticus Finch, the saintly lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Having finished watching (via Netflix) six seasons of the BBC TV series Foyle’s War, I’m ready to slap on a  “What would Christopher Foyle do?” sticker.

Though some of his admirers may find it difficult to believe now,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not widely known in the years immediately
following World War II, save perhaps as one of a band of courageous
pastors and theologians in Germany who resisted the Nazi regime of Adolf
Hitler.

Faith, unlike religion, is ready to confess its radical incompleteness and insufficiency--indeed, its brokenness.

I have returned again and again to Letters and Papers in search of insight into what it means to do
theology today, especially in my own South African context. Whether my
interest and inquiry has focused on theological issues, on the renewal
of the church and its public responsibility or on history, literature,
art and aesthetics, this remarkable collection has always provided much practical wisdom for people living in tough and
uncertain times.

For Eric Metaxas, polarization is a structural motif: his mission is to reclaim the true Bonhoeffer from liberals.