Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Costly Yes
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer boarded a ship back to Germany in July 1939, he was walking away from safety. He had just arrived in New York,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a.
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer boarded a ship back to Germany in July 1939, he was walking away from safety. He had just arrived in New York, welcomed by Union Theological Seminary with an open position and a life far removed from the gathering storm of Nazi tyranny. Friends begged him to stay. The path of self-preservation was clear and reasonable. But Bonhoeffer wrote to Reinhold Niebuhr with haunting conviction: "I have come to the conclusion that I made a mistake in coming to America.…
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