The Prisoner Who Found Light in Tegel
In April 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer and locked him in Berlin's Tegel military prison. The cell was narrow, the blanket filthy, the guards...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 27.
In April 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer and locked him in Berlin's Tegel military prison. The cell was narrow, the blanket filthy, the guards hostile. For eighteen months, the German pastor lived under the shadow of execution, separated from his fiancée, his family, and the congregation he loved. Yet those who visited Bonhoeffer in prison reported something astonishing. He was the one who comforted them.…
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