The Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York apartment, safe from the gathering storm in Germany. Friends had arranged his escape — a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 50:4-9a.
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York apartment, safe from the gathering storm in Germany. Friends had arranged his escape — a teaching post, a future free from the Gestapo's reach. He had every reason to stay. Yet within weeks, he booked passage back to Berlin, writing to Reinhold Niebuhr: "I shall have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people."…
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