The Slow Fuse

In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Tegel prison cell, waiting. He had watched the Nazi regime devour Europe for a decade. He had seen synagogues burn on Kristallnacht, watched friends disappear into camps, and felt the suffocating silence of a complicit church. To many, it seemed as though God had simply looked away. The machine ground on, year after year, unchallenged by heaven.…