MUSKEGON, MI – The July 20, 1944 "Valkyrie" plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler is one that required courage, wit and, ultimately, sacrifice. One of the men involved with the plot, German theologian and ...

Why did 13 people make their way to my campus on a dreary February evening in 2020 for a new class I was teaching on a long-dead German theologian called Dietrich Bonhoeffer? We obviously shared an ...

The November release of a major motion picture on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has reignited a long-simmering battle between those who seek to learn from Bonhoeffer's life and those who seek to use ...

Scholars have not dealt extensively with Dietrich Bonhoeffer's seminary years. There are several reasons for this. As Jurgen Henkys observes: "No period of Bonhoeffer's life and work seems more ...

In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned some extreme words: “When Christ calls a person, he bids him come and die.” Unfortunately, those words were personally prophetic. In April 1943, the Gestapo ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This weekend will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian put to death by the Nazis, whose writings and life made him a modern martyr ...

1930: Second dissertation, Act and Being, qualifies him for teaching position; July 31: first public lecture; Sept. 5: begins year of study at Union Theological Seminary in New York 1931: July: meets ...

I would bet that nearly all pastors who work with youth have caught themselves—just a little bit—contemplating murder. The frustration, confusion, and pure annoyance of teaching the tradition to ...