Running for Your Life: What If the Greats Were Us Thursday

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who perished at the hands of his blood foes, the Nazis, would have us meditate on the lessons to be learned from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.

How often, in these days of hate and suspicion between God fearers and liberal sneerers, between Fox believers and Comedy Centrists, do we pause and try to hear the uncluttered message of love and forbearance, of meekness and faith, what Bonhoeffer would say if he were alive today, that:

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them … sound no trumpet before you.”


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