Recently the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) has been on my mind lately. About a third of the EKD, the (mostly) Lutheran Church in Germany refused to submit to the Third Reich. Bonhoeffer was martyred mere weeks before the war's end; his name was on a list of prisoners who would not survive the defeat of that evil regime.
In this short space any attempt to say more does him a disservice. What I will do is to post a poem of his, written in the prison in Tegel, a section of Berlin. I have gone over thta poem with students, and I also post a link to an English translation.
No matter what the future holds, I hope and pray that we will not need a Confessing Church in the USA.
http://www.deutschelyrik.de/index.php/wer-bin-ich.html
http://nwbartlett.blogspot.com/2012/04/wer-bin-ich-who-am-i-by-dietrich.html
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