In the baptismal letter to his newborn great-nephew, uncle Dietrich looks toward the world his namesake will inherit. These paragraphs introduce a theme that is at the core of his Ethics, “responsibility,” and being prepared to take action. We have live too much in a world of ideas, and we thought it would be possible [...]
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes an Easter letter to his parents during his first month in prison. He is allowed to send one letter every ten days. He refers to his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer, who was about 19 at the time. He was about 37 when he wrote the letter. Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943 Today [...]
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This poem written from prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a good meditation for Holy Week and Good Friday. Christian and Heathen People go to God in their need, plead for help, ask for happiness and bread, for deliverance from sickness, guilt, and death. So do we all, all of us, Christian and heathen. People go [...]
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I have resumed posting letters from Bonhoeffer. Look over to the left under “Pages.” You will find a heading “Meditations on Nature,” and under that the selections will be listed. I posted two today; more will be coming soon. This is part of the research I am doing for the Bonhoeffer Congress this summer. I [...]
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If you look over to the left, under “Prayers and Poetry” you will find a “Morning Prayer for Prisoners” composed by Bonhoeffer in Christmas of 1943, his first year in prison.
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We were snowed in for a few days, and I was not able to get to my computer to finish Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christmas letter to his family from prison in 1943. The excerpts from that letter are now finished. Coming up will be a Christmas prayer for himself and his fellow prisoners.
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Check back every day or two on the “Christmas Letter” of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I will be adding a brief paragraph at a time. Some of these brief thoughts make a good thought for the day. Are you preparing Christmas memories for your children that could help them make it through dark days in the future?
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