Advent seemed to bring the best out of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A sermon that he delivered in 1933 is particularly pertinent to ...

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 ...

Candles of joy, despite all the sadness. Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios, the outfit behind global blockbuster Sound of Freedom, has unveiled the full trailer for its true-life WWII thriller Bonhoeffer – see it above. Spotlighting the courage and ...

After I’d given a talk to mark the 70th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution, I got a letter complaining that Bonhoeffer had been drained dry of meaning and was of no more use to the church.

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 ...

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 ...