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In this teaching of the “Earthly Empire and Divine Kin-dom” series, Leah walks us through the last, harrowing chapter of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life: his work in the German resistance, his arrest, and his ultimate execution. Amidst moral ambiguity and deep suffering, Bonhoeffer never stopped seeking Christ’s presence in the complexity of real life. Through prison letters, unfinished writings, and his haunting poem “Who Am I?”, Leah shows how Bonhoeffer called followers of Jesus not to escapism, but to deep solidarity with the suffering of the world. Anchored in the story of Jesus in Gethsemane, this teaching calls us to “stay awake with Christ”—to bear witness and resist despair with courage and presence. Leah reminds us that the true legacy of Bonhoeffer lies not in answers, but in the question he lived: “Where is Christ, here and now?”

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