Bonhoeffer's Question from Cell 92
In the winter of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a narrow cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. The guards called him composed. Fellow prisoners...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18.
In the winter of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a narrow cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. The guards called him composed. Fellow prisoners admired his steadiness. Yet alone at night, doubts churned. He scribbled a poem titled "Who Am I?" that laid bare the contradiction — outwardly calm, inwardly trembling. "Am I the man others describe?" he wrote.…
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