A joy to be presenting with @katherinefirth.bsky.social at a Bonhoeffer Symposium at St John’s Southgate Melbourne marking 80 years of courageous discipleship and resistance to fascism. #Bonhoeffer #confessingchurch #niewiederistjetzt #neveragainisnow
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A joy to be presenting with @katherinefirth.bsky.social at a Bonhoeffer Symposium at St John’s Southgate Melbourne marking 80 years of courageous discipleship and resistance to fascism. #Bonhoeffer #confessingchurch #niewiederistjetzt #neveragainisnow
They’re “Christian” in the same way the enemies of Niemöller’s #ConfessingChurch were German “Christians”.
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Confessing Church | Description, History, Nazi Germany, Leaders, & Facts | Britannica
Confessing Church, movement for revival within the German Protestant churches that developed during the 1930s from their resistance to Adolf Hitler’s attempt to make the churches an instrument of Nati...
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April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
They’re “Christian” in the same way the enemies of Niemöller’s #ConfessingChurch were German “Christians”.
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Lets see...
#theology #ChristianLeft #Antifa #Antifascist #Bonhoeffer #ConfessingChurch #DialecticalTheology
#theology #ChristianLeft #Antifa #Antifascist #Bonhoeffer #ConfessingChurch #DialecticalTheology
Here's a completely random theology question.
Lets say you want to have a book discussion at a liberal/progressive Protestant church over Bonhoeffer. What would be a good book to start?
Majority of congregants have some higher education, but very little experience with theology.
Lets say you want to have a book discussion at a liberal/progressive Protestant church over Bonhoeffer. What would be a good book to start?
Majority of congregants have some higher education, but very little experience with theology.
October 30, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Today a majority of American Christians celebrated the inauguration of an anti-christ. When asked for a comment, Jesus said "my-fucking-self, what's wrong with you?!" #notmypresident #antifacist #confessingchurch
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Today a majority of American Christians celebrated the inauguration of an anti-christ. When asked for a comment, Jesus said "my-fucking-self, what's wrong with you?!" #notmypresident #antifacist #confessingchurch
#antiwarvoices #andreikordochkin #christianconscience #churchaccountability #clergyresistance #confessingchurch #ecumenicalpatriarchate #faithafterwar #freedomofbelief #historicmemory #martyrdomtoday #memoryandguilt #mirvsem #moralreckoning #orthodoxresistance #patriotismandfaith #peaceoverwar
July 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It is disconcerting that today speaking truth is being treated as committing a serious crime. “Where is the Confessing Church today?” - asked a friend of mine. Followers of Jesus, more than anyone else, should know that: “#Silence in the face of evil is itself evil". #Bonhoeffer #confessingchurch
April 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It is disconcerting that today speaking truth is being treated as committing a serious crime. “Where is the Confessing Church today?” - asked a friend of mine. Followers of Jesus, more than anyone else, should know that: “#Silence in the face of evil is itself evil". #Bonhoeffer #confessingchurch
I had to tell him, “Dear brother, fellow man, Jew, before you say anything, I say to you: I acknowledge my guilt and beg you to forgive me and my people for this sin.”
– PastorMartinNiemöller, #ConfessingChurch Sermon, Erlangen, Germany 1946
#HolocaustMemorialDayTrust
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– PastorMartinNiemöller, #ConfessingChurch Sermon, Erlangen, Germany 1946
#HolocaustMemorialDayTrust
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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Pastor Martin Niemöller
Pastor Martin Niemöller is best known for writing First They Came - one of the most famous poems about the Holocaust - but he is a complicated figure. Initially an antisemitic Nazi supporter, his view...
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April 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I had to tell him, “Dear brother, fellow man, Jew, before you say anything, I say to you: I acknowledge my guilt and beg you to forgive me and my people for this sin.”
– PastorMartinNiemöller, #ConfessingChurch Sermon, Erlangen, Germany 1946
#HolocaustMemorialDayTrust
hmd.org.uk/resource/pas...
– PastorMartinNiemöller, #ConfessingChurch Sermon, Erlangen, Germany 1946
#HolocaustMemorialDayTrust
hmd.org.uk/resource/pas...