Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cornel West returns to Union Theological Seminary after Harvard tenure dispute
By Alejandra Molina — March 8, 2021
(RNS) — The move comes after West had threatened to leave Harvard University, which he said denied his request to be considered for tenure.
Healing and unity? Not yet
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 19, 2021
(RNS) — There is such a thing as ‘cheap grace.’ This is precisely not the time for it.
Eric Metaxas and the losing of the evangelical mind
By Robert K. Vischer — December 1, 2020
(RNS) — Christians can’t wait for the sociologists to sort out why our fellow congregants believe in ‘Q’ or that Trump won the election. We need a strategy to restore a few basic truths.
A grim anniversary for Dietrich Bonhoeffer marks what might have been
By A. James Rudin — January 18, 2019
(RNS) — Eighty years ago, the anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer traveled back to Germany. Had he survived World War II, he might have become a global leader in fostering respect between Christians and Jews.
Responding to American Christianity’s obsession with youth
By Jonathan Merritt — March 1, 2018
Author Andrew Root says, "As the church finds itself with an authenticity deficit, it often runs to youthful forms to legitimate it."
Mazel tov to my Protestant friends!
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 25, 2017
(RNS) — Should Jews mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation? Yes. But.....
An ethical analysis of the ‘New Sanctuary Movement’
By David P. Gushee — March 19, 2017
Are advocates of the New Sanctuary Movement meaning to call for civil disobedience?
When religion makes people worse (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — April 6, 2016
(RNS) We all say we believe in Jesus, but what we make of that belief is so irreconcilably different I am not sure that we are members of the same religious community.
When religion makes people worse
By David P. Gushee — April 5, 2016
About toxic religion that hurts people and drives them away from faith.
The ‘Splainer: Martyr or terrorist? It depends …
By Kimberly Winston — February 24, 2015
(RNS) One man's martyr can be another man's terrorist. Here's what's behind lionizing the dead.
Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer gay? A new biography raises questions
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — July 3, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) “I think theologians are often terrified of what we’ll discover when we go more deeply into human character if we say that a person had very complicated relationships with character, psychology, formation and sexuality,” says Dietrich Bonhoeffer biographer Charles Marsh.
Is Eric Metaxas the next Chuck Colson?
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — July 29, 2013
(RNS) Eric Metaxas took over some of Coloson's roles, including part of BreakPoint, a radio show Metaxas wrote for in the late '90s. He took Colson’s place on the board of the Manhattan Declaration, a movement Colson helped found to focus Christians’ attention on life, marriage and religious freedom issues, too. But comparisons to Colson go only so far.
Theologian Richard Lischer tries to make sense of his son’s death
By Yonat Shimron — April 18, 2013
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Duke Divinity School Professor Richard Lischer has written a memoir about the death of his son to cancer more than seven years ago. While memoirs about grief are plentiful, Lischer's book is a testament to how people of faith grapple with loss and try to make sense of death.
Lent Is Almost Over. Do You Know Where Your Resolutions Are?
By Jana Riess — March 18, 2013
I am flunking Lent. Again. And this time, my spiritual restlessness has had some unfortunate consequences.
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