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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Articles & Essays by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Ministry of Holding One's Tongue

Published January, 1939 • Featured October 11, 2024
Not cut-and-dried rules, but only the ever-perfect filter of Love can help us discern when to speak and when to hold our tongues as we share life together with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Who Am I?

Featured October 4, 2024
In this moving poem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer seeks to know himself as God’s beloved in the midst of his imprisonment.
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Book Excerpt from The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My Spirit Rejoices

Published July, 2012 • Featured December 14, 2021
An excerpt from Bonhoeffer’s 1933 Advent sermon concentrates on the revolutionary message at the heart of Mary’s song: ​“God is not ashamed of human lowliness but goes right into the middle of it.”
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Book Excerpt from Streams of Living Water

Bonhoeffer's Road to Freedom

Published December, 2001 • Featured October 12, 2020
Read anew some well-considered words from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the ​“four great dimensions of a spiritual life that lead to freedom in all its facets.” Richard Foster introduces us to them in this excerpt from Streams of Living Water
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Book Excerpt from Devotional Classics

Christ in Community

Published December, 1938 • Featured October 20, 2019
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.” Bonhoeffer speaks with his signature clarity and authority in this excerpt from Life Together.
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Book Excerpt from Life Together

Breaking Through to Community

Featured November 29, 2018
In this excerpt from Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer highlights the necessity of confession in the Christian community for removing the power of sin over a believer’s life and restoring fellowship.
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Book Excerpt from Life Together

Grace, Nothing but Grace

Featured November 15, 2017
What better way to celebrate a week with the Boston Cohort of the Renovaré Institute than with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s sweet meditation on the blessings of Christian community? He captures perfectly the great gift we enjoyed simply by being in each other’s presence in this excerpt from Life Together.
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What has Cost God Much Cannot be Cheap for Us

Featured March 30, 2017
In exploring discipleship through spending time with our Master, this powerful excerpt from Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers clues. To follow Christ, to truly be with him, is to die a death to ourselves. But, because it is with him and for him, this death is grace itself. Bonhoeffer explains.