It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s ...

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The new movie Bonhoeffer emphasizes similar themes to those of Metaxas’s biography. It situates Bonhoeffer’s story in the ...

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Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other ...

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one Sunday when my daughter held to the glass a sign she’d made: I love you God. Then she, too, lived within a story all her ...

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