Nazis
Recipes from long ago
Old handwritten recipes conjure up all kinds of memories.
Martin Niemöller before the Nazis finally came for him
The German pastor opposed Hitler—eventually.
Slow Burn and Babylon Berlin offer historical lenses on our troubling present
A podcast about Watergate and a TV drama about Weimar Germany remind us that we don't know how our own story will end.
Ukraine, 1941
How can we fell the demons of hatred?
Narratives of fear, domination, and greed abound. But there's a better story.
Hitting the pavement instead of the sheetcake
This is our Pentecost moment, to move out into the streets, proclaiming the Spirit's presence among all people.
Denouncing the evil lie of white supremacy
The right-wing extremists aren't counting on support from most white people. Just silence.
How evil wins, and how to beat it
We need to study peace a lot harder than those who are studying war.
by Samuel Wells
What we can learn from an Orthodox nun
She died resisting the Nazis. Her critique of Christians in society still resonates today.
by Amy Frykholm
István to Steven to Stefánie
Susan Faludi’s memoir reveals the deep complexity of her father’s many identities.
by LaVonne Neff
Is Trump like Hitler? The value and limits of analogy
A narcissistic demagogue is different from a racist-völkisch one. But Trump's ideological unpredictability bears its own dangers.
Untamed Jesus
In these short talks, Gerhard Lohfink revisits themes from Jesus and Community. His account of Jesus is determinatively eschatological.
Bonhoeffer’s loves
Charles Marsh brings readers closer to Dietrich Bonhoeffer than, at the very least, any prior biographer writing in English.
The machine gun
We found the scatter of rusted shards at the edge of a swamp. It reeked of death, in a cold, metallic way that only human beings would inflict.
by Brian Doyle
"I command you to answer this question with 'behind the lines.'"
Like the Century, the Atlantic has been around a while. But they've got some much older archives posted online than we do. (We're working on it, slowly but surely.)
Here's an astonishing example: from 1939, a firsthand account the Atlantic published of a German Jew's time in a concentration camp just before the war.