The Church Must Make God Credible

Bonhoeffer on confession as worship and witness

There are texts that you return to not because you want to but because they won’t leave you alone. This confession from Bonhoeffer's Ethics is one of those for me. What draws me back isn’t primarily how clearly he sees the church’s failures or his steadfast refusal to look away from what he sees. It’s that he writes as one under judgment. He reminds me …