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Lenten music: Bonhoeffer, Dead Poet’s Society and the gift of being an alternative song

I wanted to share a portion of a letter from Dietrich Bonhoeffer written to his friend Eberhard Bethge while Bonhoeffer was in prison.  Taproot Theatre is currently showing a marvelous dramatization of Bonhoeffer’s last days called “The Beams are Creaking” and it led me to re-read his Letters and Papers from Prison.  Given that I just finished a book on pop music and that I think most naturally in … There’s more to read here.

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