They say: “Don’t meet your heroes. As Bonhoeffer wrote in 1937’s The Cost of Discipleship, in an assessment that applies today to much of American preaching and teaching about Christianity, cheap grace is “grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” I see “cheap grace” around me when Christian leaders tell people they’re inherently …
For filmmakers with points to make about good versus evil, World War II would seem a safe space. But writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s aggressively lionizing, faith-driven movie about Bonhoeffer seems uninterested in any complexity about pacifism and violence coexisting in one man. It’s also not enough that this eager white ally is the one to get punched by a spitting bigot …
