Showing posts with label Dietrich Bonhöffer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dietrich Bonhöffer. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

"This Is Happening in our Country Today and Is Being Done in All of Our Names": An Advent Sermon by Lisa Koop

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Christian Trump supporters, take note. https://t.co/xn3kCgkjaA — Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 24, 2019 I'm happy to be ab...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Recommended: Ian Gilmour, Slavery to Civil Rights

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I'd like to recommend to you a little monograph entitled Slavery to Civil Rights , written by my friend Ian Gilmour, a Presbyteri...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Biographical-Theological Evidence

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Diane Reynolds,  The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany  (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016) ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Charles Marsh's Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, on Bonhoeffer's (Highly Contested) Homosexuality

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Here's another set of excerpts I'd like to share with you from Charles Marsh's excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on the Sordid History of German Church's Response to Hitler: We Forget at Our Peril

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I've just finished reading Charles Marsh's  Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer  (NY: Knopf, 2014), and would like t...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Wave of Queer Bashing in U.S. Catholicism and Cheap-Grace Christianity: Further Reflections on What's Going on with Viganò's Cabal

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Shared by Chiara Giaccardi on Twitter The letter written by Fordham theologians Patrick Hornbeck and Bryan Massingale to their colle...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Wendell Griffen on White Christian Nationalism and Costly Grace in Era of Trump: Followers of a Palestinian Jew Whose Family Were Refugees

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Wendell Griffen, in his just-published Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2017):  White Christian nationa...
Friday, January 20, 2017

"Christendom Adjusts Itself Far Too Easily to the Worship of Power": Theological Bases for Resistance in the Trump Era

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John Pavlovitz :*  And so right now a large portion of the American Evangelical Church sits pretty, believing itself victorious...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

David Gushee on "My Discovery in Recent Years of Versions of Christianity That Actually Make People Worse Human Beings Than They Might Otherwise Have Been"

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For Religion News Service, David Gushee writes today about how the hopeful view of how Christian communities relate to the world around ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

"The Easiest Way to Make Oneself Righteous Is to Make Someone Else a Sinner": The Churches and LGBT People Today — Grace or No Grace?

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"the easiest way to make oneself righteous is to make someone else a sinner." @rachelheldevans #searchingforsunday pic.twitter...
Friday, October 17, 2014

The Debate About Welcoming Those Who Are Gay — A Reader Asks: "What Are Catholics Afraid of? And Why"

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In your comments about "the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles" that have broken out at the synod on the family...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Bibles, Churches, Gays, Religion: Bilgrimage Readers Continue an Important Discussion

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Recently, I responded to a question asked by a thoughtful reader of this blog (Bob/tinywriting) about how one determines when Chris...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Remembering Dietrich Bonhöffer: "The Table Fellowship of Christians Implies Obligation"

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As the anniversary of German theologian Dietrich Bonhöffer's execution by the Nazi regime passes (it was on 9 April), I think of ...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Reflections on the Death of Christopher Hitchens: Cheap Grace and American Exceptionalism

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I haven't commented on Christopher Hitchens's death because, to be honest, I didn't much follow the debates in which he was...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Glenn Greenwald on Glee at Gaddafi's Death: A Reflection about American "Pro-Life" Values

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As gruesome photos of the corpse of Mommar Gaddafi circulate online,  Glenn Greenwald writes about the kind of people we Americans a...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Joan Chittister on Expulsion from Family and Minority Wisdom: Critical Questions for the John Paul II Era of Catholic Apologetics

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When I posted yesterday about the recent NCR editorial re: the story of Bishop Morris in Australia, I had planned to post a follow-up abou...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Bonhöffer: “Only the Person Who Cries out for the Jews May Sing Gregorian Chants”

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If I have ever read the following statement from Dietrich Bonhöffer, I’ve long since forgotten it: “Only the person who cries out for the...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Newman and Jägerstätter, Kosher Ethics and Hurricane Fay: Ruminations on the News

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John Henry Newman Exhumation Story I’ve blogged several times about the plans underway to exhume the body of the 19th-century theologian and...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Two Tables Again: Communion and communion

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Dear Readers, Some intent readers of my blog have questioned my emphasis on the connection between Communion and communion—between the ...
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