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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

Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Charles Marsh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2014. ISBN 978-0-26981-2 x + 515 pages. $35.00 (Kindle $14.39). This new biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer promises to please readers on a number of different levels. Marsh’s talent for storytelling comes through in his literary writing style, by which the Teutonic settings [...]

Earth-Honoring Faith and Resisting Structural Evil

Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key. Larry L. Rasmussen. New York/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-991700-6. xi + 462 pages. $45.00 -and- Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4514-6267-8. xix + 315 pages. $19.80 (E-book 978-1-4514-2639-7 $12.00) _____________________________ Ed. Note: This review article [...]

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