[Note: The Christian liturgical season of Advent lasts for four Sundays leading up to Christmas.] Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of my heroes, a man who stood up for the Truth in a time when the truth had become perverted by a demagogue, Adolf Hitler, and a people who had become blinded by nationalism. His friends arranged lecture tours in America; Bonhoeffer went, but soon returned to Germany and joined with those who were seeking the overthrow of the Nazi regime… Bonhoeffer led a double life as a pastor in the political underground movement. Such involvement was foreign to the whole tradition of ...