In The Battle for Bonhoeffer: Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump (Eerdmans 2018), Stephen Haynes explored how Bonhoeffer’s legacy was being co-opted by popularizers who had little understanding of Bonhoeffer’s theology or historical context. In this presentation, Haynes will update “the battle for Bonhoeffer” with attention to recent books and films that argue America [...]
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 [...]
Texts to Introduce Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Texts and Resources for Introducing Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Students and Others ANTHOLOGIES Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Bonhoeffer Reader. Clifford J. Green and Michael DeJonge, eds. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Geffrey B. Kelly and E. Burton Nelson, eds. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1990. [...]
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Christiane Tietz, Clifford Green, Dianne Rayson, Isabel Best, Jennifer M. McBride, John deGruchy, John Hendrix, John W. Matthews, Lori Brandt Hale, Michael Mawson, Michael P. DeJonge, Philip Zeigler, Reggie L. Williams, Stephen R. Haynes, Victoria J. Barnett, W. David Hall, Willis JenkinsLori Brandt Hale 
SCM Podcast – Season 2: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Student Christian Movement, UK) New Episodes Available
The second season of SCM’s Podcast (beginning November 2023) is hosted by William Gibson and is devoted to the life, theology, and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From William’s blog: “This podcast season will have 3 different types of episodes. First, theological, where William will interview theologians and scholars to discuss Bonhoeffer and how he relates [...]
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Adam Spiers, Andrew Clark-Howard, Craig Gardiner, Eleanor McLaughlin, Jack Woodruff, Jennifer M. McBride, Lori Brandt Hale, Naomi Nixon, William Gibson 
Project Bonhoeffer – UK (Webinar Series: Bonhoeffer’s Legacy for Today) Videos Available Online
Project Bonhoeffer is a small UK-based organization. Set up in 2011, it was created to “inform and remind today’s Christians – young and not-so-young – of the challenges of discipleship that Dietrich Bonhoeffer addressed in his radical theology and in his Christian witness leading to his execution at the hands of the Nazis at the [...]