With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview on John Stone Street with a point,

on this day 75 years ago an elderly German couple living the shattered remains of Berlin

turned on the radio.

It was Klaus and Paula Bonhoff for the parents of Pastor Theologian and Resistance Leader

Dietrich Bonhoff.

Lines of communication had been devastated by the war, so this was the first that Klaus

and Paula had heard of their son's death.

It was an announcement of a memorial service in London, organized by his good friend Bishop

George Bell, broadcast over the BBC.

My former colleague Eric Metaxas described it this way, quote,

as the couple took in the hard news that the good man who was their son was now dead,

many English took in the hard news that the dead man who was a German was good.

Bonhoff's faithfulness reminded the world that even in the face of radical evil, faithfulness

to Christ is possible.

Bishop Bell would put it this way.

He represents both the resistance of the believing soul and the name of God to the assault

of evil and also the more unpolitical revolt of the human conscience against injustice and

cruelty.

I'm John Stone Street with the Point.