The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.

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The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
The Scriptures consistently speak about sanctification as a sure gift for the Christian.
It is death that deserves derision, not the disciple who reaches through sorrow for his Lord.
The Christian answer to death is not a disembodied app, but a bodily resurrection.
When faith seeks understanding—when belief is grounded in revelation and open to the light of reason—truth can travel.
This is the fourth installment in our article series, “An Introduction to the Bondage of the Will,” written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will.
Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
Even if the Shroud were proven a medieval forgery, it would only highlight the skill of its maker. The case for Christ’s resurrection rests on eyewitness testimony.
The reason Christians argue so much about the sacraments is because, deep down, they matter.
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
The baptized do not celebrate sin—they grieve it.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then his claims about himself and his promises to humanity warrant serious attention and response.