**Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Body in the Prison Cell**
In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.
In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither — to let his body slouch into despair, to abandon the disciplines of a free man. Instead, Bonhoeffer rose each morning and exercised in his tiny cell. He kept his body clean, his posture upright, his routine ordered.…
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