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• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

  
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  Author Eric Metaxas has written an unusual book .  It is part biography, part history, and part philosophy.  Ostensibly it is primarily the former more than the latter.  However, it is much more than just the story of one remarkable man’s life.  It is the story of choices and consequences.  It is a depiction ...
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• Opinionator | The Stone: In Syria and Beyond, the Tyrant as Target

  
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  The escalating crimes of Bashar al-Assad raise the age-old question: Why shouldn’t killing the tyrant be preferable to war?        
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• In Syria and Beyond, the Tyrant as Target

  
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  The escalating crimes of Bashar al-Assad raise the age-old question: Why shouldnt killing the tyrant be preferable to war?
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• On Praying the Psalms

  
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  According to Gordon Wenham, the Psalms are designed to be prayed.  Wenham points out that Jesus and the apostles prayed the Psalms regularly, and then the Christ church for about eighteen centuries.  But what happened?  In the 18th century, “ Men like Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, John Newton, and others in ...
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• Bonhoeffer on the magical powers of leadership

  
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  Thanks for the interest in my paper on Bonhoeffers critique of leadership . This should eventually be published in a collection of essays resulting from the colloquium, so Ill let you know when its available. In the mean time, heres another excerpt from the first part of the paper (before it gets into a detailed ...
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• Repaso: May 10, 2013

  
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  1. The view from below John Stackhouse ( @jgsphd ) shares a poignant passage from Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers From Prison and concludes: I almost never, ever, thank God for setbacks, disappointments, frustrations, and injustices in my life that would let me, for once, see things the way so many people ...
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• Bonhoeffers critique of leadership

  
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  On the weekend Ill be presenting a paper at a colloquium on interfaith persepectives on leadership. My paper (representing the Protestant tradition) is on Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological critique of leadership in Life Together . Heres an excerpt from the conclusion: Eight decades later, Bonhoeffer’s dark ...
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• Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Gethsemane Prayer

  
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  Imprisoned in the Gestapo cellar of Prinz Albrecht Strasse during WWII, Bonhoeffer penned his Gethsemane prayer, a poem titled Von guten Machten (By Kindly Power Surrounded). It’s a short but wonderful poem. It’s a prayer of both thanksgiving and petition. The petition anticipated his execution at the hand of the ...
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• Bultmann and Blair

  
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  In the lastest LRB , there is a collection of snippets from the magazine’s coverage of Margaret Thatcher (“the third most written about person in the ‘LRB’ archive, after Shakespeare and Freud”), including this aperçu from Tony Blair: What makes things even worse for radical, progressive spirits is that ...
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• Watching American Diplocrisy in Ethiopia

  
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    America is Watching!? Diplomacy by hypocrisy is “diplocrisy”. Edmund Burke, the British statesman and philosopher, said “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” We’ve heard many promises on human rights in Africa from ...
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• “How Is It Possible That Thousands Upon Thousands Are Bored with the Church?”

  
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  How is it possible that thousands upon thousands of people are bored with the church and pass it by? Why did it come about that the cinema really is often more interesting, more exciting, more human and gripping than the church? Can that really be only the fault of others and not ours as well? The church was different ...
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• Eric Metaxas: The Accidental Biographer

  
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  To hear him tell it, Eric Metaxas was as surprised as anyone at the success of his William Wilberforce biography, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery and his epic-length Deitrict Bonhoeffer follow up with Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy , which clocked in at 608 pages. ...
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• Pre-publication samples

  
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  This one has been nagging at me for years and I’m amazed none of the major ebook retailers offer a solution. I’m talking about the ability to pre-order an ebook sample prior to publication. Yesterday I received a bulk email …
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