The first guy waited until he became Chancellor of Germany and used the Reichstag fire as a pretext to start rounding up enemies and building concentration camps. A front-page story in the New York Times tells us that our own Chancellor-in-Waiting, Donald J. Trump, isn’t waiting to be elected, or f.
A Talk Delivered To The National Unity Gathering, National Council Of Churches, Nashville, Tennessee, October 10, 2023, By The Reverend Dr. Rob Schenck In reading about Bonhoeffer's role in the struggle to maintain the integrity of the gospel in the context of his own Evangelishe Kirche, I came across a factoid that cracked the very foundation of my then-moral and religious certitude.
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This post is unusual, so a little introduction is in order: Below is the manuscript version of a talk I gave recently at the Parliament of World Religions Given Bonhoeffer's broad appeal, how he brings liberals and conservatives together, how he is admired by secularists and even atheists given his unquestioned commitment to a profoundly spiritual humanism, and the extreme circumstances surrounding his religious and cultural generosity, Dietrich Bonhoeffer remains an important model, even if an imperfect one (but who isn't?) and he remains a unique inspiration for reaching out to and embracing the Other in unwelcoming times even in supremely unwelcoming times and in quite costly ways.