Showing posts with label Bonhoeffer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonhoeffer. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

The hungry

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678 The Hungry Man and I To allow the hungry man to remain hungry would be blasphemy against God and one’s neighbor, for what is nearest t...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

A Morning Prayer

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103 Morning Prayer O God, Early in the morning do I cry unto Thee Help me to pray, And to think only of Thee I cannot pray alone In me...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Quantity vs. Quality

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Quality is the strongest foe of every kind of leveling of society. Socially this means abandoning the pursuit of position, breaking with the...
Monday, August 05, 2024

Good out of bad (Bonhoeffer)

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I believe that God can and will let good come out of everything, even the greatest evil. For that to happen, God needs human beings who let ...
Friday, August 02, 2024

The danger of contempt

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The danger of allowing ourselves to be driven to contempt for humanity is very real. We know very well that we have no right to let this hap...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Herein lies the danger

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[I]t seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

A famous quotation and its missing context

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Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by u...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Attacking the red cape

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The fanatic believes that he can meet the power of evil with the purity of a principle. But like the bull in the arena, he attacks the red c...
Monday, July 29, 2024

For the sake of the common good

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In whatever particular historical moment we find ourselves, we are summoned to determine what our place in history will be, to think and act...
Friday, March 22, 2024

A consistent pacifistic christoform hermeneutic

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Bonhoeffer operated with one of the most consistently pacifistic christoform hermeneutics in the history of the church. But it was a hermeneu...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Bonhoeffer and the suffering of God

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For Bonhoeffer, “our God is a suffering God”—one who bears our sin, pain, and anguish. The deepest meaning of the cross of Christ is that th...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Cheap grace?

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Most of the confusion about the gospel in our contemporary church culture stems from a failure to see that “Jesus is the king” is the high p...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Recently read

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Over the weekend, I read Women and Power by Mary Beard. I saw it at the local used bookstore (Fair Trade Books) and grabbed it on Friday. I...
Saturday, February 03, 2018

Bonhoeffer's birthday

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Tomorrow (Sunday) is Bonhoeffer's birthday. In anticipation, Englewood Review of Books has posted a few excerpts from his collected wo...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Far too common

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A church in which only grace is being preached not only reminds us of the temple cult in Amos’s day (cf. Amos 5:21–23) but is a place where ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The cross beckons us

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The Sermon on the Mount is not law that can save us; it is, rather, the texture of the life of those who have died with Christ and are now m...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Costly Grace

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Grace is costly, then, not because it is an idea; it is no principle, program, or doctrine. Grace is costly because it is a person; it is th...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

More than head knowledge

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Bonhoeffer was aware that the situation in which these young pastors would find themselves in the future would be one of great challenge, a ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

But where is he?

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He [Bonhoeffer] asserted in his dissertation and embodied in his ministry that it is not in the institution of the church that Jesus Christ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Fear not!

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Anxiety, as neuropsychologists today tell us, is toxic; our brains are wired to avoid anxiety. Anxiety corrupts the chemistry of the brain a...