Bonhoeffer's Letter from the Ruins

In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cold cell at Tegel Prison in Berlin, arrested for conspiring against the Nazi regime. Everything had collapsed — his plans, his freedom, his future. Yet in his very first letter to his parents, he did not write words of despair. He wrote of hope. He quoted scripture. He spoke of God's faithfulness even in the wreckage of his circumstances.…