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Carl Truman and James Talarico's Faith
In a Washington Post Op Ed, Carl Truman takes a shot at James Talarico’s faith. Truman claims Talarico’s Faith is “not the future of Christianity”. Truman’s concern, of course, is gender and…
Why we are called to love our immigrant neighbor
How does Bonhoeffer's Discipleship speak about the love the Christian community owes our immigrant neighbors? Bonhoeffer explores what he calls an "extraordinary love"—the love Christians must show,…
Blessed are the Merciful
What does it mean to follow Jesus in this strange cultural moment in the U.S.? Should the Christian community use political power to support their way of life? Bonhoeffer interprets the sermon on the…
To Hunger and Thirst for Justice
The sermon on the mount is the heart of what it means to be a Christian disciple. For Bonhoeffer, this includes hungering and thirsting for God's justice. There are some who think Christians should…
Taking the First Step in Discipleship
In chapter two of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer talks about the first steps of faith. Discipleship is about action, about leaving our nets or getting up from the table, and following Jesus. This is not a…
Americanism or Christianity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter to his grandmother in which he says, "The issue is really Germanism or Christianity". Today, it seems, the question for the church is: Americanism or Christianity?…
What Metaxas Doesn't Understand about Bonhoeffer's Theology
Reading through Metaxas' Religionless Christianity: God's Answer to Evil, there are some things that Metaxas gets right. However, he misses something that central to Bonhoeffer's theology. This…
Bonhoeffer vs. Metaxas
When you compare the book Religionless Christianity: God's Answer to Evil with Bonhoeffer's own writings, it raises questions about whether Metaxas and Bonhoeffer mean the same thing when they talk…
What Metaxas Gets Wrong about Religionless Christianity
In the first chapter of his book Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil, Eric Metaxas uses Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity to criticize the secularization of the Christian faith. “To…
A Bonhoeffer Moment
In his lecture Thy Kingdom Come! The Prayer of the Church-Community for God’s Kingdom on Earth, Bonhoeffer challenges the “other worldly” tendencies of Christianity. He calls for the Christian…
When We Don't Know What We Should Do
In II Chronicles 20, the kingdom of Judah is attacked by a great multitude from the nations around them. Verse 3 says that “Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord…” In the prayer…
Why Failure is Necessary for Faith
Francis knew what he wanted—to become a knight. He wanted to become something more, to attain the honor and wealth that came with success on the battlefield. Things didn’t go as planned. Not only did…
St. Francis of Assisi and Religionless Faith
When I take students to Italy to walk in the footsteps of St. Francis, I have to confront their skepticism. St. Francis was part of a medieval world and social imaginary. Yet, most of my students,…
The Pagan Faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In his essay Aristocratic Christendom: On Bonhoeffer and Nietzsche, Frits de Lange writes this: "Bonhoeffer tries to develop a theology that integrates the heart of Nietzsche's critique of…
The Worldly Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer writes, "One only learns to have faith by living in the full this-worldliness of life." In this letter, Bonhoeffer describes a different version of Christian spirituality--to live as human…
Being Human not Religious
In his letter dated July 18, 1944, Bonhoeffer writes: "It is not a religious act that makes someone Christian, but rather sharing in God's suffering in the worldly life." To make this point,…
Living With God, Without God
In a letter dated July 16, 1944, Bonhoeffer writes: "Before God, and with God, we live without God." What does it mean to live without God in a world come of age? This is the heart of Bonhoeffer's…
Metallica and Religionless Faith: Heavy Metal and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This past weekend I attended a Metallica concert in Minneapolis. The experience has me thinking about how a heavy metal concert provides and example of Bonhoeffer's religionless Christianity. This…
What if Salvation is about this life?
In a letter written to Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, "The Christian hope of resurrection is different from the mythological in that it refers people to their life on earth in a wholly…
God of Unbelievers
In his letter to Bethge dated June 8, 1944, Bonhoeffer writes: “The fact that the world has come of age is no longer an occasion for polemics and apologetics…” The problem with both liberal theology…
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