This month we celebrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s 100th birthday. His life and writings continue to change church and society. Like St. Paul and Martin Luther King, Jr., Bonhoeffer spoke powerfully from prison. From his vantage point in Tegel Prison he wrote:
I should like to speak of God not on the boundaries but at the center. . . . God is beyond in the midst of our life.
"God" is at the heart of this world, full of grace and freedom. Namaste.
Some ways to remember Dietrich this month: see Bonhoeffer (a documentary film: "Powerful and shocking." ~nytimes.com) www.bonhoeffer.com; read "Freedom" from Ethics www.johnpcock.homestead.com/BonhoefferFreedom.html and Letters and Papers from Prison; browse www.dbonhoeffer.org; read high school history teacher’s tribute to Bonhoeffer, via Dick Kroeger: www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=tct:2006:02:04:543310:editorial
Photo: statue of Bonhoeffer above the west front of Westminister Abbey, London, among statues of ten martyrs of the 20th century
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Some are suggesting that the times in which we live bear some similarity to 1932 in Germany. The commemoration of Bonhoeffer's 100th birthday at this particular time may be providential. RCW
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