While court evangelical Eric Metaxas is invoking Dietrich Bonhoeffer to “stop the steal,” the real Bonhoeffer scholars are calling for the removal of Donald Trump from office. Here is the official statement by the executive board of the International Bonhoeffer...
This is very disturbing. It comes from a pro-Trump prayer meeting organized by court evangelical Jim Garlow. Thanks to Right Wing Watch for capturing it on video. I am not one to criticize people’s prayers, but what Metaxas does here...
Eric Metaxas, the evangelical author, radio host, and “fellow” at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, has been one of the most outspoken defenders of the belief that Joe Biden and Democrats rigged the 2020 presidential election. We have covered him extensively...
All of these quotes come from Mark Thiessen Nation and Stanley Hauerwas’s piece “‘A pacifist and enemy of the state’: Bonhoeffer’s journey to nonviolence.” It offers a nuanced interpretation of Bonhoeffer’s nonviolence. The Sermon on the Mount as the proclamation...
Not all Christian colleges are the same. Some of you may recall a post in which I compared Messiah University to Liberty University. If you have a child considering a faith-based college I encourage you to read that post. Liberty...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Greg Laurie is still suggesting that the United States was “born out of a revival.” I addressed the many problems with this view here. In fact, religious attendance and membership was at an all-time...
Since my last update, a few things have changed in court evangelical land. Neil Gorsuch, one of two Donald Trump Supreme Court nominees, has defended LGBTQ rights and has proven he may not be the best court evangelical ally when...
Court evangelical Eric Metaxas wrote a popular biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. University of Virginia theology professor Charles Marsh wrote a biography of Bonhoeffer that was praised by Bonhoeffer scholars. When Metaxas invoked Bonhoeffer to...
Read this. Then watch this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FSq8J8Ixek&w=560&h=315] ...
Thanks to Bonhoeffer biographer and theologian Charles Marsh for bringing these words to my attention. You can apply them this morning as you see fit. “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against...
In the last week or so we have called your attention to stories about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. First, there was Stephen Haynes’s “An Open Letter to Christians Who Love Bonhoeffer but (Still) Support Trump.” And then there was this post: “International...
The International Bonhoeffer Society is an organization of scholars who study the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian who the Nazi’s hanged after learning of his role in a plot to assassination Adolph Hitler. On...
Eric Metaxas Last night at Messiah College I heard Christian writer Eric Metaxas give a very entertaining, humorous, and inspiring lecture on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The lecture was based on his wildly successful book, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet,...
Eric Metaxas, the author of the wildly successful (especially among evangelicals) Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, spoke this week at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. Jared Burkholder, a historian at Grace and friend of this blog, was the master […]
Everywhere I turn someone is reading Eric Metaxas’s biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. My brother-in-law got a copy of the book for Christmas. A colleague recently praised it on his Facebook page. An elderly friend and...
Everywhere I go people are singing the praise of Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. We blogged a bit about it here. I have not read the book, but it appears that Metaxas uses the book to try to...
Gustav Niebuhr is reporting that George W. Bush is reading Eric Metaxas’s new biography of German theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. (I saw Laura Bush mention this over the weekend during an interview on Book TV). Niebuhr is not surprised […]
