The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is important to tell but it needed to be told in a better format than the one provided through the feature film “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.” A plodding script, ...

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of life.” It was – more than he knew. Even ...

Early in my 40-plus-year career in ministry, I was fortunate to spend three of those years in West Berlin, first doing youth ministry in a local German congregation, and then heading the U.S. and ...

(RNS) — Bonhoeffer matters precisely because he reminds us that Christian behavior and attitudes are more than calculations for a partisan edge. (RNS) — In the decades since he was executed in Germany ...

Charles Marsh has written a moving, melancholy portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and pastor executed in a concentration camp two months before World War II ended in Europe. With ...

One of my theological heroes is German Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Nazis executed him as a traitor to their malevolent cause in April 1945, just as World War II was ending. One of ...

For filmmakers with points to make about good versus evil (and not necessarily subtle ones), World War II would seem a safe space. Take the shortened life of anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich ...

At a Chicago park that served as the official protest venue earlier this year for the Democratic National Convention, it looked like trouble when marchers carrying Israeli flags headed toward the ...

A couple of months ago, I had the chance to see Am I a Racist?, conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s hit documentary. It was a fantastic experience — I laughed so hard I could barely breathe. While I ...

Eric Metaxas explains how the German theologian lived a life worth examining. What inspired you to begin studying Bonhoeffer? My mother grew up in Nazi Germany, losing her father during the war. He ...