Community and Witness

Who Owns Bonhoeffer? What Does Resistance Mean? A Conference at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial on the 80th Anniversary of Bonhoeffer’s Execution (April 7th-9th, 2025)

WHAT DOES RESISTANCE MEAN TODAY? He provokes, inspires, and divides: April 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the Nazis in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Bonhoeffer was active in the Confessing Church and later in the conspiratorial resistance against the totalitarian Hitler state. As a Christian [...]

REGISTRATION OPEN: March 7-8, 2025. “Hope in a Divided World: A Faithful Response to Christian Nationalism.” United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. IN-PERSON AND ONLINE.

United Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg, PA An Invitation from Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA: Join us for a weekend with Dr. Lori Brandt Hale, president of the International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section and Amanda Tyler of Christians Against Christian Nationalism. Discover how people of faith can authentically and humbly act at the intersection of civic life [...]

New Documentary: “The Cloud of Witnesses: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem 1930/31” to premiere in Düsseldorf, Germany on October 10th, 2024. A film by Hellmut Schlingensiepen and Reggie Williams.

German filmmaker Hellmut Schlingensiepen and American theologian, Reggie L. Williams, will premiere the German version of their documentary, “The Cloud of Witnesses: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem 1930/31,” in Germany on October 10th, 2024. For more information about the film, including a list of conversation partners, visit the film’s website. More Information – The Cloud of [...]

Forthcoming Curriculum: Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA and IBS-ELS will offer “Lessons from Bonhoeffer” for Congregations and Communities

Curriculum Development Partnership Announced Press release from LAMPa, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania, April 9th, 2024: April 9th is the day the ELCA commemorates the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor-theologian who resisted the Nazi regime in Germany before and during WWII. For many, Bonhoeffer is an inspiration of faithful witness in [...]

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 [...]

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