A Poem from Bonhoeffer

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 [...]

Bonhoeffer Christmas Letter Completed

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.