... Today is Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Birthday.
See also: Marking the Birth of a Martyr ...
Bonhoeffer was an immense influence on me in my college days, when, like Verlaine, I divided my time between sin and repentance. Bonhoeffer made being a Christian seem a heroic way of life (as, in his case, it proved to be). I wish I could say I proved up to the task, but ...
Frank, thank you for noting Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s birthday. He was someone about whom we should all know something.
ReplyDeleteIn my own birthday tribute to Bonhoeffer, I suggested there was nothing cloistered about this cleric. "Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church," Bonhoeffer once wrote. "Our struggle today is for costly grace" ... and that was amply and tragigally demonstrated in the course of his all-too-short life.