The Last Ship Back
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a borrowed office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, safe from the gathering storm in Europe. Friends...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a.
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a borrowed office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, safe from the gathering storm in Europe. Friends had arranged his escape from Nazi Germany. He had every reason to stay — a teaching position, intellectual freedom, his very life. But something would not let him rest. For weeks he wrestled and prayed.…
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