Bonhoeffer's Prayers from a Distance

When the Gestapo shuttered his underground seminary at Finkenwalde in 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer did not stop being a pastor to his students. Scattered across Germany, drafted into military service or pushed into hiding, those young men still received his letters — pages filled not with despair but with an almost stubborn joy. He thanked God for what their fellowship had meant.…