Articles, reflections and seminar recordings from Project Bonhoeffer and our trustees.
Artists and more recently photographers are often able to depict aspects of the violence and horror of war which is not often apparent. Picasso’s painting Guernica is a remarkable, moving and unsettling artwork which he painted in response to the bombing of a market town in…
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On the 9th April 2025 we commemorated the 80th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution with a memorial day at the Emmanuel Centre, Leeds. The event was…
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Our 2024 autumn seminar series has been exploring current issues of AI, lament, and disability theology through the lens of Bonhoeffer and his ethics. If you…
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Our current seminar series asks the question, 'What is Bonhoeffer's Legacy for Today?'. So far we have welcomed four speakers, Ben Bano, Keith Clements, Ellie McLaughlin,…
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In February 2023 conference which explored the challenges to policy and practice that arise when people cross borders to seek sanctuary. Specifically, it addressed the question…
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George Mackay Brown lived almost all his life in Orkney where both world wars had a huge impact on the islands and their inhabitants. Scapa Flow…
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As the humanitarian crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine worsens, and evidence mounts of the widespread abuse of human rights and multiple breaches of international…
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It was a privilege to be invited to the recent Faith and Frontiers conference organised by Project Bonhoeffer, where I spoke about Seeking Sanctuary, the small…
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Project Bonhoeffer is seeking to recruit new Trustees. Our trustee group meets approximately four times a year. The charity is based in Leeds but remote participation…
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The Board of Project Bonhoeffer are pleased to announce that the annual Dietrich Bonhoeffer day conference will still go ahead on 24th October 2020, despite COVID-19…
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This is the outline of the schedule that we are admittedly belatedly bringing out. The outline for the conference day is as follows; 9:45- Arrival Time…
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Press Release- Upcoming Conference on October the 26th Project Bonhoeffer is proud to announce to its followers, friends and partners that this years Conference, scheduled at…
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In his Cost of Discipleship Bonhoeffer has much to say about what those who follow Jesus are called to be and to do. His exposition of…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writing takes many forms – from theological statements to personal letters – prose and poetry, much of which was written towards the end of…
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This is a synopsis of the keynote address given by Professor Esther Reed [University of Exeter] at our "Faith and Frontiers" Conference on 05 November 2016.…
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This is the Press release for our upcoming conference:- FAITH AND FRONTIERS is the very topical title of this year’s meeting of friends and supporters of…
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The best way to read “becoming Simple and Wise”, a scholarly book of subtly developed distinctions based on a doctoral thesis, is to take it personally.…
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On the 13th November, 130 people were murdered in Paris by terrorists linking themselves to the organisation Daesh (IS). As a direct response to those attacks,…
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During the year under review, the second since Project Bonhoeffer was formally incorporated, the Board of Trustees met as planned three times in different cities in…
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In an essay entitled "Bonheffer's Christological Take on Vocation" Lori Brandt Hale writes "In July 1944, one day after the conspiracy's failed attempt on Hitler's life(…
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The first address at the 2014 Project Bonhoeffer Conference was by Ulrich Lincoln, a Lutheran Pastor working in London. We reproduce here the introduction to his…
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At last year’s Bonhoeffer Day conference, our second speaker was James Burn, a social worker in Birmingham, who spoke movingly of the challenges he has faced…
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At the end of his fascinating presentation at our Bonhoeffer Day conference last year in Birmingham in which he described the on-going impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s…
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I can still remember my first electric shock and my father, who was an electrician by trade, insisting that you always need to “make sure that…
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In autumn 2025 we hosted online seminars with Dr Stephen Plant, Dr Matthew Kirkpatrick and Professor Rachel Muers, with responses from Professor Lori Brandt Hale, Revd Dr Keith Clements and Professor John De Gruchy. Watch the recordings below.
