{"id":4514,"date":"2011-12-01T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:12:31","slug":"book-review-bonhoeffer-pastor-martyr-prophet-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Bonhoeffer Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4515\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4515\" title=\"_225_350_Book.488.cover\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/225_350_Book.488.cover_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/225_350_Book.488.cover_.jpg 225w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/225_350_Book.488.cover_-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><br \/>\n-Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/p>\n<p>I have had this book sitting on the shelf in my office for several weeks.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine sitting down and reading it cover to cover.\u00a0 Instead, I have chosen to read it in sections.\u00a0 I still have a bit to go before it is finished.\u00a0 The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer radically changed my thinking on what it means to truly follow Christ.\u00a0 To now read such a compelling story of Bonhoeffer in his roles as pastor, martyr, prophet, and spy has been a great adventure.\u00a0 I&#8217;d encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy\/dp\/1595552464\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1322763061&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">pick up a copy<\/a> of this book at your first chance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze\u00ae.com &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/booksneeze%c2%ae.com\/\">http:\/\/BookSneeze\u00ae.com<\/a>&gt; book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s 16 CFR, Part 255 &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.access.gpo.gov\/nara\/cfr\/waisidx_03\/16cfr255_03.html\">http:\/\/www.access.gpo.gov\/nara\/cfr\/waisidx_03\/16cfr255_03.html<\/a>&gt; : \u201cGuides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer I have had this book sitting on the shelf in my office for several weeks.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine sitting down and reading it cover to cover.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}