Posts Tagged ‘TDBI’
Our Senior Fellows on International Women’s Day
Meet the Women of TDBI’s Senior Fellowship The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute’s Senior Fellows cohort is an invitation-only group of activists, advocates, scholars, and leaders whose skill-sets, experience, and accomplishments complement the work of the Institute. Each a leader themselves, TDBI Senior Fellows contribute to the advance of our mission to nurture, form, and help deploy…
Read MoreBlack History Month: The Roots of Our Crisis
Top photo: Meeting of the KKK, Oregon Historical Society, 1920s. Bottom photo: January 6th Insurrection, Getty Images, 2021. The Roots of Our Crisis By Bishop Van Gayton, TDBI Senior Fellow “The church too must face its historic obligation in this crisis. In the final analysis the problem of race is not a political but moral…
Read MoreRemembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Birthday
On the left, Sister André. On the right, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dear Friend of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, When a French nun, Sister André, the world’s oldest known person, died recently at the age of 118, time shrunk for me. A century and some years more feels so long ago, until it’s within one person’s lifetime.…
Read MoreFaith Rooted Activism
Michelle Ferrigno Warren Michelle Ferrigno Warren knows of what she speaks and writes. Regarding social and economic justice, Michelle’s effective engagement with problems of human deprivation is born from her personal experience. 25 years ago, she and her husband, David, helped organize Open Door Ministries, a church and community development corporation in downtown Denver, Colorado. Together,…
Read MoreOur Work – Seeking Prophetic Witness
Our Work – Seeking Prophetic Witness Ephesians 4:11 reminds us that God raises up prophets and teachers among us. These extraordinary individuals reflect Bonhoeffer’s deep spirituality, perceptive nature, and intellectual prowess. Through our work over the past several years, The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute has been graced to find ourselves in the company of even a…
Read MoreOur Mission in Action – Finding Common Cause
Our Mission in Action – Finding Common Cause Dietrich with students at Finkenwalde. Acting with ethical courage has consequences, an often unfortunate and unintentional one being loneliness. As Jesus alluded to when he preached how the broad, well-traveled road that leads to destruction and the narrow road that leads to life, those who act with…
Read MoreOur Approach to Bonhoeffer
Our Approach to Bonhoefferian Ethics The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute president, Rev. Rob Schenck, often says that to know our namesake as a morally courageous martyr is to know only a small fraction of him. Bonhoeffer was a resister of Nazism, an opponent of politicized religion, and an advocate for Jews and other oppressed peoples in…
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