Reviews

I have had a love for Bonhoeffer for many years. Ever since reading his biography. Then life together. But I never found anyone to share that love with. Today, I learned a little bit more about my attraction to him. His ability to shed his ethnocentrism in seeing other’s ways of living and worshipping struck a note with me. Now I see myself more clearly as like him in this way. I am 80 years old and rejoicing at finding a brother with whom I fit. It seems, in the world that I have lived, I must leave Jesus in order to do this. Though I know this not to be true. Those around me either cannot see this or cannot be committed to Jesus radical way of living at the same time. Thank you, how I do look forward to the wonderful journey ahead. Your presentation was so alive and ever so enlightening. I live in Auburn Alabama because this is the place that God has chosen for me. I feel like an alien here and today I have found a place. I no longer drive and have been searching for the depth of thought and community I needed. Thank you

This has been an exhilarating and understandable introduction to Bonhoeffer for a Pentecostal blessed at birth, baptized at ten as a Lutheran, confirmed at 13 and graduated from a Lutheran college, and current 72 year old Reconciling United Methodist . It’s been a long strange trip, for sure. I’ve been called to seminary twice but the call was stronger to marriage, raising twins, and teaching for thirty years in elementary school. HomeBrewed Christianity, Tripp’s classes, and lectures like this keep my mind and soul interested and stimulated. Kudos on this Bonhoeffer venture.