The Prisoner Who Asked, "Who Am I?
In the spring of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a narrow cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15.
In the spring of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a narrow cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler. The guards remarked how calm and cheerful he seemed. Fellow prisoners sought him out for comfort. Yet alone at night, Bonhoeffer wrestled with a question that haunted him. He poured it into a poem he titled "Who Am I?"…
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