Bonhoeffer's Child
@bonhoefferchild.bsky.social
A minister exploring the mass intersection of belief, politics, responsibility, and humanity. Gadfly.
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Irony is dead.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Irony is dead.
Considering all the revelations about Epstein and Trump and their pedo ring … it’s a sure bet that this year people won’t be seating MAGA relatives near the kiddie table.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Considering all the revelations about Epstein and Trump and their pedo ring … it’s a sure bet that this year people won’t be seating MAGA relatives near the kiddie table.
1/ New episode!
The House got wind that we were dropping our Epstein episode today, and ran to vote to release the files! Today, Bon and @wearenotenemies.bsky.social talk about Epstein, how deep rot can go, what complicity looks like, and Ben teaches us about properly centered Christian identity.
The House got wind that we were dropping our Epstein episode today, and ran to vote to release the files! Today, Bon and @wearenotenemies.bsky.social talk about Epstein, how deep rot can go, what complicity looks like, and Ben teaches us about properly centered Christian identity.
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
1/ New episode!
The House got wind that we were dropping our Epstein episode today, and ran to vote to release the files! Today, Bon and @wearenotenemies.bsky.social talk about Epstein, how deep rot can go, what complicity looks like, and Ben teaches us about properly centered Christian identity.
The House got wind that we were dropping our Epstein episode today, and ran to vote to release the files! Today, Bon and @wearenotenemies.bsky.social talk about Epstein, how deep rot can go, what complicity looks like, and Ben teaches us about properly centered Christian identity.
A fruit of “Christian” America.
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A fruit of “Christian” America.
The “good” we seek is only as good as the evil we excuse to win that “good.”
When a Christian excuses an evil, they explicitly say that the Cross is only as good as the evil they excuse or ignore.
Consistency matters. Inconsistency is the mother of all hypocrisy.
When a Christian excuses an evil, they explicitly say that the Cross is only as good as the evil they excuse or ignore.
Consistency matters. Inconsistency is the mother of all hypocrisy.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The “good” we seek is only as good as the evil we excuse to win that “good.”
When a Christian excuses an evil, they explicitly say that the Cross is only as good as the evil they excuse or ignore.
Consistency matters. Inconsistency is the mother of all hypocrisy.
When a Christian excuses an evil, they explicitly say that the Cross is only as good as the evil they excuse or ignore.
Consistency matters. Inconsistency is the mother of all hypocrisy.
If our idea of an abundant life is measured in something other than souls pointed to the Cross, succor given sacrificially, and love demonstrated freely and without cost … then our measure of abundance is no different than Mammon’s.
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If our idea of an abundant life is measured in something other than souls pointed to the Cross, succor given sacrificially, and love demonstrated freely and without cost … then our measure of abundance is no different than Mammon’s.
Well, now we know why Trump called his big legislative push the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Well, now we know why Trump called his big legislative push the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
MAGA’s new campaign slogan.
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
MAGA’s new campaign slogan.
The depths of one's faith and consistency of one's praxis/ witness can be measured by the amount of compromise one engages in for personal agenda or policy lust.
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The depths of one's faith and consistency of one's praxis/ witness can be measured by the amount of compromise one engages in for personal agenda or policy lust.
We are now officially less than a week of news cycles away from the GOP saying “Trump didn’t do anything wrong. After all the girl was 15.”
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We are now officially less than a week of news cycles away from the GOP saying “Trump didn’t do anything wrong. After all the girl was 15.”
This is an astute point.
Ladies, your voices matter. Thank God for your voices. May every man who ignores those voices or tries to minimize them repent.
Ladies, your voices matter. Thank God for your voices. May every man who ignores those voices or tries to minimize them repent.
Seeing a few comments about “dead rapists bringing down living rapists”.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is an astute point.
Ladies, your voices matter. Thank God for your voices. May every man who ignores those voices or tries to minimize them repent.
Ladies, your voices matter. Thank God for your voices. May every man who ignores those voices or tries to minimize them repent.
The Dems caving on the shutdown to people who are literally stripping HC and starving people … demonstrates why they’ll lose in the midterms. And why they should. MAGA has no moral spine. And now the Dems show they don’t either.
Sigh.
Sigh.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Dems caving on the shutdown to people who are literally stripping HC and starving people … demonstrates why they’ll lose in the midterms. And why they should. MAGA has no moral spine. And now the Dems show they don’t either.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Correct.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Correct.
I hate to be the one to tell MAGA Christen this … but Charlie Kirk held the same views as Tucker Carlson still does.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I hate to be the one to tell MAGA Christen this … but Charlie Kirk held the same views as Tucker Carlson still does.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
1/ The Pendulum Swings: As people celebrate MAGA getting its fingers stepped on in last night's elections, we should take a moment for sober reflection. Last night set the stage for a potential MAGA win in 2026 midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
1/ The Pendulum Swings: As people celebrate MAGA getting its fingers stepped on in last night's elections, we should take a moment for sober reflection. Last night set the stage for a potential MAGA win in 2026 midterms.
If you want to understand the gestalt of American Christian Nationalism, consider this:
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If you want to understand the gestalt of American Christian Nationalism, consider this:
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
Refusing to love your neighbor is a fruit of Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism, above all else, is an ideology of self. Every Christian Nationalist worships not God but an idol that wears the face they see in the mirror.
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Refusing to love your neighbor is a fruit of Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism, above all else, is an ideology of self. Every Christian Nationalist worships not God but an idol that wears the face they see in the mirror.
Something, something, autopen.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Something, something, autopen.
There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
1/ Today, the lectionary base for my Sunday homily includes Habakkuk 1:1-4 and 2:1-4. In the first, the prophet decries the injustice of the day. In the second, he reminds us of God’s consistency and that He will inevitably answer all evil with holy justice.
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/ Today, the lectionary base for my Sunday homily includes Habakkuk 1:1-4 and 2:1-4. In the first, the prophet decries the injustice of the day. In the second, he reminds us of God’s consistency and that He will inevitably answer all evil with holy justice.
Perfect.
Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Perfect.
However bad you think the Epstein files are for Trump ... they must far worse than we imagine if he's going to bomb South America to deflect.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Trump Set to Strike Venezuela 'at Any Moment': Report
President Donald Trump has made the decision to strike multiple Venezuela military installations, according to a new report from Miami Herald.
www.mediaite.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
However bad you think the Epstein files are for Trump ... they must far worse than we imagine if he's going to bomb South America to deflect.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Every single man should hope to one day have a wife that holds him the way Erika Kirk holds JD Vance.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Every single man should hope to one day have a wife that holds him the way Erika Kirk holds JD Vance.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.