Bravo! and Amen, Ryan.

Bonhoeffer's legacy and testimony are, and will be, in the darkening days ahead, an inspiration for Christian believers, such as you are and I am.

And we know that the original confessor was Jesus the Christ. Although he himself had no sins to confess, his absolute honesty and integrity laid bare the hypocrisy, sacrilege and destructive hatefulness of all mankind.

Evangelicals, Catholics, Lutherans and all others who confess Christ as Saviour should re-read, in these times of mounting trouble, those Gospel accounts of man from Galilee who healed the sick and taught the untaught.

Therein, we find an incrdibly brave divine human being whose spoken and acted legacy convicts, while correcting, the offenses of all men and women anywhere i history or our present dystopiae.

Jesus' recorded life reveals that he was no comfortable, capital-gobbling republican. Nor was a nihilistic rebel demonstrating in the streets.

His life was so absolutely true and authentic that we executed him rather than bear the disgrace of that confession.

Even so, that very condemnation set the stage for the most significant renewal event in history. Can you ,, the reader here, guess what it is?

And as for Bonhoeffer . . . his life and confession came much closer than most men to the actual imitation of Christ.

And Dietrich, like Jesus, paid the ultimate price for his life of authentic confession, and thereby bequeathed to us the last full measure of his devotion.