Thanks for writing, Fitch. Many of your questions and convictions about Bonhoeffer for our times were motivations for Joe Thomas and I producing the Wayfinding podcast and writing our book "Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Off the Beaten Path and into the Kingdom" (Wipf & Stock, 2024). As you said, "He is an exemplar for how to live and navigate oppressive and ideologized political regimes even unto to death." Did he get everything right? No, of course not. Can we romanticize him or try and re-package him to fit our agendas? Of course, and many do. But was he a prophetic, provocative, faithful witness, devoted to Christ, to the church, to those below the thumb of tyrannical oppression? I believe so. The guiding question shot through in his life and writing was "Who is Christ for us today?" I believe we need a fresh understanding of that in 2025.
thanks bro... I do think Christians - in general - histoircally have convictions on sexuality and abortion. Whether evangelical, progressive, other ... I think I left it "open" as to what and how those Christian convictions are worked out. This orks better for me ... because, for instance, I don't believe I can say for myself that the approach to abortion by the Trump/evangelical coalition is "traditional Chrisian"... etc ... you get my drift.
Thanks for writing, Fitch. Many of your questions and convictions about Bonhoeffer for our times were motivations for Joe Thomas and I producing the Wayfinding podcast and writing our book "Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Off the Beaten Path and into the Kingdom" (Wipf & Stock, 2024). As you said, "He is an exemplar for how to live and navigate oppressive and ideologized political regimes even unto to death." Did he get everything right? No, of course not. Can we romanticize him or try and re-package him to fit our agendas? Of course, and many do. But was he a prophetic, provocative, faithful witness, devoted to Christ, to the church, to those below the thumb of tyrannical oppression? I believe so. The guiding question shot through in his life and writing was "Who is Christ for us today?" I believe we need a fresh understanding of that in 2025.
I look forward to more info in point 3. I hadn’t seen that before
thanks bro... I do think Christians - in general - histoircally have convictions on sexuality and abortion. Whether evangelical, progressive, other ... I think I left it "open" as to what and how those Christian convictions are worked out. This orks better for me ... because, for instance, I don't believe I can say for myself that the approach to abortion by the Trump/evangelical coalition is "traditional Chrisian"... etc ... you get my drift.