Alles gut zum Geburtstag!

[This post was originally written immediately after 2017's Alt-Right march on Charlottesville and failed to get picked up for publication. It is posted here in observation of his birthday, February 4, 1906. The work is heavily reliant upon Charles Marsh's Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. ] It is at Charlottesville and for the

In the early hours of this morning at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows among Nazi guards and hanged until he was dead. It was not Palm Sunday seventy-two years ago. In fact, Easter fell on April Fool's Day in 1945. Today, Jesus is led into the streets among joyful

I wrote this after I could no longer watch the returns of Election Night, so it's a bit of a panicking paroxysm, but given the state of affairs, I think I'm allowed it. Two nights ago, I started a post about the fact that with a Trump victory, the United States would be entering a