Bonhoeffer: A Hero Then and Now, Part 1

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

During the regime of Adolf Hitler, a brave German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer declared, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, highlights the moral courage of this man who knowingly risked his life to condemn Germany's maniacal dictator. God is still calling Christians to speak out against evil going on today.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, everyone. I'm James Dobson, and you're listening to Family Talk, a listener-supported ministry.
0:06.5	In fact, thank you so much for being part of that support for James Dobson Family Institute.
0:19.6	It's been more than a decade since best-selling author Eric Metaxus wrote a book that serves as an inspiration for a new motion picture that gives us courage and hope to stand up for biblical Christianity in a world that seems to keep turning away from it.
0:33.5	And today on Family Talk, we're going to hear that conversation once again.
0:37.0	I'm Roger Marsh. Welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast ministry to hear that conversation once again. I'm Roger Marsh.
0:37.8	Welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast ministry of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.
0:42.3	I'm here in studio with our host, psychologist and bestselling author, Dr. James Dobson.
0:47.6	Hello, Dr.
0:48.5	Well, greetings, Roger.
0:49.9	I find your introduction here to our program very interesting because this subject itself
0:57.0	has fascinated me from the time that I was a child because I was so interested in World War II.
1:04.0	I was five years old when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and from that time on I wanted to know more about what was happening in the world
1:13.3	at that time. But we're going to talk about Eric Mataxis, who is a wonderful speaker and
1:20.6	writer, and he's written many books now. And I think this is the one that interests me the most.
1:27.1	It's about the story of Dietrich Bonhofer.
1:31.3	And if you have an opportunity to go to the movie that has now been released about
1:37.7	Dietrich Bonhofer, it would be well worth your time to do it.
1:42.2	And I strongly recommend it.
1:45.9	Tell them more about what's coming.
1:51.3	Well, what's coming on today's program is a conversation that Dr. Dobson had with Eric Metaxus,
1:57.1	who was a biographer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and wrote a very well-known book on Dietrich Bonhofer's life. And now that we see Bonhofer's life portrayed on the big screen, the new movie Bonhofer, Pastor, Spy, Assassin, is in theaters right now.
2:05.8	Dr. You and Shirley had a chance to see this and we're really moved by it.
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