It is not only the ‘communion of saints’ which poses a problem; every human community has problems, even a privileged family with close ties among its members. The Bonhoeffers were such a family, and yet, as we have seen, both Dietrich and Susanne Bonhoeffer experienced loneliness within it. Bonhoeffer’s older brothers teased him about his religious ideas, when he told them he was going to study theology. When they declared that the Church was old hat, he shot back, ‘Well, then I’ll reform the church!’