International Bonhoeffer Society

Now Available for Download! An Interactive Multi-Week Bonhoeffer Curriculum by Lori Brandt Hale for Congregations and Communities, Created in Partnership with Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania

Learn More and Download the Curriculum About the curriculum: The curriculum is designed to take 4-6 weeks to complete, includes lesson plans, slides, facilitator scripts, and handouts. Each week also contains an activity and/or discussion questions. The lessons build on one another and should be done in order. Lessons 1-4 offer a complete program. Lesson [...]

Sign-Up Today! 2024-2025 ONLINE Oregon Bonhoeffer Seminar – “With Courage and Humility: Bonhoeffer’s Ethical Approach for Us Today” with Mark Brocker (Begins September 10th, 2024)

“With Courage and Humility: Bonhoeffer’s Ethical Approach for Us Today” Second Tuesdays of the Month via Zoom 1:00pm – 2:30pm (Pacific Time) FACILITATOR: Dr. Mark Brocker (Past President, International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section) REGISTRATION & ZOOM LINK: Email Dr. Brocker – [email protected] FORMAT: Presentation (1:00 – 1:40) and Discussion (1:40 – 2:30) DESCRIPTION [...]

Event Announcement: “Democracy and Discipleship – Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Polarized Times” (July 11th and 12th in Minneapolis, MN) Free Registration is Open

Thursday: Keynote Panel + Q&A Friday: Teaching Workshop and Roundtable Discussion All are welcome! In our fraught times, 20th century pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers moral guidance and courage. He challenges us to consider the impact of our actions for the future. In his famous essay, “Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943,” [...]

Chapter Announcement: IBS-ELS Board Member has chapter in a new book on Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology

Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology: A Convergence of Word and Spirit (T&T Clark, 2024) T&T Clark, 2024 IBS-ELS Board of Directors’ Member, Christian Collins Winn, contributed the chapter, “Barth, Pentecostalism, and the Eschatological Cry for the Kingdom,” in the T&T Clark volume on Barth, edited by Frank D. Macchia, Terry L. Cross, and Andrew K. [...]

REFLECTIONS on the XIV International Bonhoeffer Congress in Sydney, Australia, January 2024 – Updated

Crisis and Hope: Reading Bonhoeffer for Today In January of 2024, nearly 150 participants from around the world gathered in Sydney, Australia to engage the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The sessions were focused, in one way or another, on how Bonhoeffer can help us understand and negotiate the many challenges we are facing [...]

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