While researching Dietrich Bonhoeffer and women, I was tantalized by a line from Maria’s sister Ruth-Alice von Bismarck in Love Letters from Cell 92: The Correspondence between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer: 1943-45: “In 1974 … She [Maria] also gave an interview about her relationship with Bonhoeffer for a television documentary.” (354)An interview? Why had [...]
A Death Row Inmate Finds Common Ground With Theologians
A lot of convicted felons find God while in prison. Some of their stories rise to the level of literature — Oscar Wilde, Malcolm X. Others are less sincere; parole boards around the country are treated to a lot of conversion stories. Few are anything like Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, who is scheduled on Monday [...]
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Georgia death row inmate finds path back to hope with ‘costly grace’
I met Kelly Gissendaner in January 2010 in a nondescript classroom at Metro State Prison for Women in Atlanta. She arrived for class beaming with excitement about the journey she was about to begin — participation in a yearlong academic theology program sponsored jointly by four Atlanta seminaries. Since she has been sentenced to the [...]
Sermon on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In a sermon broadcast live on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship (Sunday, 26 February 2012), Archbishop Rowan Williams preached on the theme of freedom – what it means to be free and how we can achieve the true freedom ‘to be what we most deeply are’. Speaking on the first Sunday in Lent at King’s [...]
Bonhoeffer – A Choral Theatre Work
https://www.youtube.com/embed/g8U1xnq-hZo This composition, Bonhoeffer, a choral-theater work, by Thomas Lloyd was nominated for a Grammy in 2017 at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in the “Best Choral Performance” category. Learn more about Thomas Lloyd Learn more about Lloyd’s Bonhoeffer Composition
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