That last point matters. The future of Christianity in Europe may not be large. It may not be culturally dominant. It may not regain the old privileges of establishment. But the Church is often true ...

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was almost hearing the stomping of the Gestapo boots to take him away and execute him, he wondered on paper what kind of people the church was going to need most when the last ...

A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends. One autumn morning in 2016, during a season shot through with loneliness, ...

Many of us in this country are steeped in the Christian story of Jesus. A man who was born into this world and came to be ...

Bonhoeffer described such a condition vividly: The stupid person “is under a spell,” no longer in possession of himself. When a cultural narrative becomes dominant, it exerts a powerful pressure that ...