Remembrance.

Sixty-nine years ago today (April 9th), thirty-nine year old Dietrich Bonhoeffer walked up to the gallows and was hanged for the role he played in the plot to kill Hitler. Though his life was cut tragically short, Bonhoeffer has written some of the most compelling and convicting words of any theologian. Despite the very different time he lived in, his words still ring true today. Let the martyrdom of this great Christian be a reminder to all of us that our faith, as Soren Kierkegaard said, is a restless thing, and that we should be ever on the move toward God's imagined future, which means fighting against injustice where we find it and loving this world back to life. As Bonhoeffer wrote: "Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.” Where will your faith take you today?