Bonhoeffer

There’s righteousness there that’s hard to ignore, and it’s made Bonhoeffer, the author of dozens of books before his death, a figure of admiration and a martyr to many.

He enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in New York City where writings by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer —who denounced Hitler’s Nazi regime — galvanized his passion for social justice.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once warned that “silence in the face of evil is evil is evil itself.”

“This is a Bonhoeffer moment,” citing the famed German pastor and anti-Nazi activist whom Hitler executed.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who was hanged in a Nazi concentration camp.