Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the world's great theologians, died at age 39 on a Nazi gallows, stripped of clothes and dignity, his death unknown to his family until three months later. They never found ...

It is Lincoln’s words whose weight we feel this day: “the last full measure of devotion.” Carved in stone in the south wall ...

The theologian set aside his nearly finished magnum opus while in prison, investing instead in creative writing. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” “A Christian’s secular vocation ...

You bump into the past quite often in Berlin. There's the curated remains of the Wall, the vast architectural hymn to militarism of the Soviet war memorial in Treptow, and the disorientating ...

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer distinguishes be­tween “cheap grace” and “costly grace.” Cheap grace requires nothing from us. Bonhoeffer describes it as “grace without discipleship, ...

What should a Christian do when confronted with a government of great evil? Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship) was a Lutheran pastor and theologian who wrestled with how to remain true to ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian from Germany executed by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39 for his role in a resistance movement that included attempts to assassinate German leader ...