Posts by Jordan J. Ballor
April 22, 2015
April 09, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Apple Tree
April 08, 2015
Discrimination for Me, But Not for Thee
March 24, 2015
The Loneliness of the Fortunate
March 13, 2015
Apple Watch: Forbidden Fruit?
March 12, 2015
Abraham Kuyper on ECT
February 27, 2015
A Plea for Prosperity
February 19, 2015
Radically Communitarian Islam
February 13, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the economy of love
On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his young fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer:
When I consider the state of the world, the total obscurity enshrouding our personal destiny, and my present imprisonment, our union—if it wasn’t frivolity, which it certainly wasn’t—can only be a token of God’s grace and goodness, which summon us to believe in him. Continue Reading...
February 09, 2015