Cal Thomas: Bonhoeffer and a Christian’s ‘privilege to suffer’

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June 18, 2010, marked the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s historic call to arms for the French to resist the Nazis and also Winston Churchill’s “finest hour” address.

Another anniversary might have gone unnoticed were it not for a brilliant new biography of a man who gave his life in a failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” by Eric Metaxas is a major biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, published 65 years after the death of this giant of faith.

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