<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I have met Richard Rohr. And i agree with his view about Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- he should be canonized a saint. I think i found a recent children's book about Bonhoeffer, which means his relevance today is on many people's minds. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">- Karen Medina</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> </div><div>Date: 7/12/19 01:50 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: peace-discuss@anti-war.net, peace@lists.chambana.net </div><div>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Richard Rohr Meditation: Engagement </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> "Center for Action and Contemplation" <<a href="mailto:Meditations@cac.org">Meditations@cac.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> July 12, 2019 at 1:01:01 AM CDT<br><b>To:</b> "Cg Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Richard Rohr Meditation: Engagement</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:Meditations@cac.org">Meditations@cac.org</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><!--[if IE]><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="ie"><![endif]--><!--[if !IE]><!--><!--<![endif]-->
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Friday, July 12, 2019</span></span></h3>
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<p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 0;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia"><em>We live by responding to the word of God . . . since this word is addressed to our entire life, the response, too, can only be an entire one; it must be given with our entire life as it is realized in all our several actions. —</em>Dietrich Bonhoeffer [1]</span></p><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia"><em>The German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who was executed at Flossenburg prison camp, could be considered a modern prophet. I personally believe that the Catholic Church should canonize Bonhoeffer a saint—of the first
magnitude. Robert Ellsberg writes about Bonhoeffer’s impact over time and his invitation today. </em></span></p><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia">[Bonhoeffer’s] witness has inspired other Christians wrestling with the ethical dilemmas of responsible action in the face of oppression. Through most of his career Bonhoeffer had espoused a pacifist position, and he never ceased to believe that violence was inconsistent with the ideals of the gospel. In the end, however, he believed that the crisis of the times was so grave as to require that certain Christians willingly compromise their purity of conscience for the sake of others. . . .</span></p><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size:
16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia">As a theologian, Bonhoeffer’s reputation rests largely on the vision forged in the confinement of his last years and disclosed in letters smuggled to his friend, Eberhard Bethge. Here he outlined the need for a new “religionless Christianity,” a way of talking about God in a secular language appropriate for a “world come of age.” Traditional religious language tended to posit a stop-gap deity occupying a “religious” realm on the boundaries of day-to-day life. Instead, Bonhoeffer wrote,</span></p><blockquote style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;Margin-left: 0;Margin-right: 0;padding-left: 14px;border-left: 4px solid #c4c4c4;"><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 20px;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia" style="Margin-top: 20px;">I should like to speak of God not on the boundaries but at the center, not in weaknesses but in strength; and therefore not in death and guilt but in [humanity’s] life and goodness. . . . God is the beyond in the midst of our life. The church stands, not at the boundaries where human powers give out, but in the middle of the village. [2]</span></p></blockquote><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia">In the postwar decades these writings helped inspire a broad range of Christians seeking to overcome the gulf between the churches and the secular world. More recently . . . theologians have highlighted a more radical insight in Bonhoeffer’s writings: “It remains an experience of incomparable value that
we have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed and reviled, in short, from the perspective of the suffering.” [3]</span></p><p class="size-16" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 20px;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;" lang="x-size-16"><span class="font-georgia">And it is perhaps in this light, in which he came to see the identity between the cross of Jesus and solidarity with the oppressed, that Bonhoeffer offers such a poignant model of contemporary holiness. After the war some German Christians were reluctant to call him a martyr, since he had been executed for political rather than “religious” charges. This attitude, which would set the “holy life” apart from the world and its concrete demands,
exemplified the religious mentality that Bonhoeffer rejected. For him, following Christ was a matter of engagement in this world, “living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world—watching with Christ in Gethsemane. That, I think is faith, that is metanoia; and that is how one becomes a [person] and a Christian.” [4]</span></p>
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<em>If you want to go deeper with today’s meditation, take note of what word or phrase stands out to you. Come back to that word or phrase throughout the day, being present to its impact and invitation.</em></p>
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<p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 0;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">[1] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em>Ethics</em>, trans. Neville Horton Smith (Touchstone: 1995, ©1955), 219.</span></p><p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">[2] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, letter to Eberhard Bethge (April 30, 1944), <em>Letters and Papers from Prison</em>, ed. Eberhard Bethge, rev. ed. (The Macmillan Company: 1967), 155.</span></p><p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">[3] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942–1943,”
<em>Letters and Papers from Prison</em> (Fortress Press: 2015), 20.</span></p><p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">[4] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, letter to Eberhard Bethge (July 21, 1944), <em>Letters and Papers from Prison</em> (Macmillan: 1967), 202.</span></p><p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 0;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">Robert Ellsberg, <em>All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time </em>(The Crossroad Publishing Company: 1997, 1998), 161.</span></p><p class="size-15" style="Margin-top: 20px;Margin-bottom: 20px;font-family: georgia,serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 23px;" lang="x-size-15"><span class="font-georgia">Image
credit: <em>Deborah Under the Palm Tree</em> (detail) by Adriene Cruz. Used with permission of the artist. See more of Cruz's work: <a style="text-decoration: underline;transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in;color: #41b2ba;" href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-phkkidk-ykirdiklo-r/">adrienecruz.com</a>.</span></p>
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