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Host Jen Pollock Michel is joined by first-time podcast guest Laura Fabrycky and ERB editor Chris Smith for a rich and impassioned conversation about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, political theology, and the role of reading in a contentious political culture.
Laura Fabrycky is an American writer, diplomatic spouse, and mother of three, currently residing in Brussels, Belgium. Her book, Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is a historically grounded memoir of her experience as a volunteer guide at the Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin. Laura has also published a book of poetry called Give Me the Word, and she has recently been accepted as a PhD student at the Evangelical Seminary of Leuven.
Books and Articles Mentioned:
- Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Laura Fabrycky
- The Early Church Saw Itself as a Political Body. We Can Too. by Tish Harrison Warren
- Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
- Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy by Luke Bretherton
- The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider
- The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology by Oliver O’Donovan
- Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
- How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby
- The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace by John Paul Lederach
- Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish by C. Christopher Smith
- Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley
- Psalms: The Prayerbook of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Cultural Liturgies Series by James K.A. Smith
- Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks and a Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
- The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature by Siegfried Wenzel
- Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha Nussbaum
- Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology by Joshua Hordern
- Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride
- A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire by Janice Radway
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