The Pastor Who Preached From a Prison Cell
On April 5, 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer at his parents' home in Berlin. For two years, the Lutheran pastor lived in Tegel military...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Peter 3:18-22.
On April 5, 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer at his parents' home in Berlin. For two years, the Lutheran pastor lived in Tegel military prison, then Buchenwald, and finally Flossenbürg concentration camp. He had every opportunity to stay safe in America — Union Theological Seminary had offered him refuge in 1939. He boarded the ship, crossed the Atlantic, and then turned around and went back.…
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