Bonhoeffer’s death, regard it as a sad and tragic ending. And of course to some great extent it is precisely that. The idea that this profoundly good and brilliant thirty-nine-year-old man who was engaged to a beautiful young woman was executed just three weeks before the end of the war is nothing if not tragic and sad. But if we stop there, we miss the larger and more important reality. We miss precisely what Bonhoeffer lived his whole life to illustrate and what he most desperately wanted each of