On 6 April, I will be giving a talk to the St James’ Insititute, Sydney, on ‘Captivity and Freedom in the Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’ before the Choir of St James’ King Street, directed by Warren Trevelyan-Jones gives a performance of Philip Moore’s ‘Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’.

Tickets to the talk are still available.

Here’s what I’ll be talking about:

‘Restless, yearning, sick, like a bird in a cage… hungry for colours, for life, for birdsong’.
From ‘Who Am I?‘

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a theologian for our times: an intellectual who worked across barriers of race, denomination and language. For his role in heading an underground seminary, and his work with the resistance against the Nazi regime, he was imprisoned, interned in concentration camps and executed. Bonhoeffer’s writings invite us to ask about what captivity really means, and what it is to have freedom.

And here is a recording of Morning Prayer to whet the appetite: