St. John’s FB feed made me spit my coffee out this morning.

I think he does. He devotes a whole podcast episode to an interview with the movie’s director. Gives the guy an opportunity to give his side. Asks the salient questions.

“He was inspired by the lack of compartmentalization that he saw in Black Christianity, that it places one’s whole being under the gospel—with no space for the separation of faith and politics or of public and private life.”

Rise of Bonhoeffer Join us for an eight-part audio docuseries (and online class) tracking Dietrich Bonhoeffer's journey of resistance in Nazi Germany.

@jeffreycpugh.bsky.social & @trippfuller.bsky.social have done an outstanding job of this in a podcast series and accompanying class - www.bonhoefferpodcast.com. A deep dive, even-handed but clear & strong disdain for the Christian Nationalist co-opting.

The podcast series had been outstanding. Can’t wait to jump into the class you and Tripp have put together. Lutherans, especially, would gain much from this as it is a *much* deeper engagement with Bonhoeffer than is typical, even in ELCA seminaries.

3/ American Lutherans especially need a much deeper than typical engagement with Bonhoeffer alongside the intensity with which they claim him.

2/ To only now learn of the deaths of other family members highlights this. His family system, his New York time, his evolution from being a young German nationalist himself to the person who preached in Yonkers, and ultimately the one who writes “Letters…” - all make for an amazing life.

1/ Yes to all of these. But also, it’s typical of American Lutheranism to see Bonhoeffer as a hero, perhaps read “Life Together,” “Cost of Discipleship,” and maybe “Ethics” or “Christ the Center,” and think they know Bonhoeffer.

This ancient theme of the mystics is finding expanding expression.
Wonderful.

This ancient theme of the mystics is finding expanding expression.
Wonderful.

Jim Gaffigan to Bears fan: “You’re aware that getting into the playoffs isn’t by invitation. You have to win games. Right?”

“To live consciously aware of divine presence and depth in every moment, every act, every touch of the hand, smell of the rose, taste of food, tear of sorrow, pain of wound is to know oneself as part of a cosmic whole.” - Ilia Delio, “The Not-Yet God”

Want to learn about the life, faith, & resistance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Check out this audio documentary featuring a host of the most accomplished Bonhoeffer scholars. bonhoefferpodcast.com

The philosopher John D. Caputo said the most remarkable thing to Ilia Delio on her podcast, “A Hunger for Wholeness”: “The name of God is not an agent but of an agenda. It is something to be done and we’re the ones who have to do it.”

The mantra is simple: “Today, I am going to *be* love.” You can even be love while going through the checkout line at the grocery store. Wherever you are. Watch how the world around you begins to soften, to contain more wonder, transcendence. Being love is the sacred dimension of our existence. 3/3

Try it as an experiment for a day. “I am going to be love today. I’m not concerned about any specific act, instead I’m going to let love dwell in me and let it radiate in me and through me. It will be in my eyes, my face, my heart, a vibration.” 2/3

It’s a subtle distinction: to love another as an act, or to *be* love. To love as an act is what we’re taught. We determine that we love someone and then we try to demonstrate it through our actions. Deciding to *be* love is a different thing. 1/3