Project Bonhoeffer Conference 2019
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 the St Georges Conference Centre, Leeds, on October the 26th will be centred around “Faith in Our Democracy Today”. “Centring the conference around topical issues has been a tradition […]
WE MUST REMEMBER THAT JESUS TOO WAS A REFUGEE
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. It is important to recall, as Bonhoeffer undoubtedly did, that Jesus and his family crossed borders to seek refuge in Egypt from Herod’s massacre of the innocents. Since the […]
Ulrich Lincoln – The Perception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Germany
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 talk and make the full text available as a PDF download. My name is Ulrich Lincoln, I am currently pastor at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Forest Hill in […]
JAMES BURN: What does it mean to live for others?
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 in his work with some of the most vulnerable victims of poverty and injustice who have been his clients. He reflected on their pain and distress and his response […]
Ulrich Lincoln: “The relevance of Bonhoeffer in today’s Europe”
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 life and ideas on the German churches and society since his execution in 1945, Pastor Ulrich Lincoln had this to say about some important ways in which Bonhoeffer’s thinking […]
