Welcome to Wayfinding, a podcast for those who think history matters. Hosts Joe Thomas and Jonathan King travel into history to listen in on the lives of faithful Christians of the past as they help us navigate our way today as followers of Jesus Christ.
Joe Thomas and Jonathan King are the authors of Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Cascade Books. The book is available now, get your copy here.
Joe Thomas is the founder of Life Together House, whose mission is to revitalize the church in America in order to speak creatively to a world wide awake. Joe is an historian, author, playwright and mentor. He holds an M.A. from Fuller Seminary and a Ph.D. from Trinity, and he serves as faculty in Christian History at Urbana Theological Seminary and Evangelical Theological Seminary. // Jonathan King has served in a variety of ministry and marketplace environments, and he currently works as a writer for the Cancer Center at Illinois. He holds an M.A. in Religion from Urbana Theological Seminary, where he wrote a thesis on the reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the South African church struggle against apartheid. // This podcast is produced by Life Together House.
Hosted By: Joe Thomas and Jonathan King
Episodes
Episode #7: Our Final Wayfinding Thoughts
How then is Bonhoeffer a wayfinder for us today? In this concluding episode of season one, Joe and Jonathan look back over the previous six conversations and discuss several insights for us as we navigate a life of faithfulness to Christ in our own time.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #6: World Come of Age
How do we bear witness to Christ in a "world come of age"? Written from prison during his final months on earth, Bonhoeffer exchanged a multitude of letters with close friends and family. He also penned many creative works and musings about the future of the church in the midst of a changing Western landscape. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan explore some of Bonhoeffer’s unfinished thoughts from prison.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #5: Bonhoeffer and South Africa
What does Berlin have to do with Soweto? What could the German Bonhoeffer have to say, years after his death, to Christians struggling against apartheid? Listen in with Joe and Jonathan as they consider the legacy of Bonhoeffer as a wayfinder for the church in South Africa.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #4: The Conspiracy
The brutality of Adolf Hitler's Nazi ideology was unrelenting. As pastor, theologian, and vocal Nazi dissenter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer devoted many years to every possible means of peaceful resistance, but upon his return to Germany after a brief second sojourn in America, Bonhoeffer's energy shifted to the insider Conspiracy to remove Hitler. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan look behind the scenes of the conspiracy: what was it, who was involved, why did Bonhoeffer join, what was his role, how did this decision interact with his ethics, and how did things turn out?
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #3: Come Before Winter
Have you ever made a decision you agonized over, or perhaps later regretted? In this conversation of Wayfinding, Joe and Jonathan discuss the implications of three words from the apostle Paul for one of Bonhoeffer's most consequential decisions: his early exodus from America and his return to a Germany in the throes of warfare. An original play by the same title, "Come Before Winter," written by Joe and Doug Peterson, debuted in September 2022.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #2: Bonhoeffer and the Bible
What has been your journey of relating to the Bible? Dietrich Bonhoeffer underwent significant shifts in how he approached, read, and applied Scripture. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan trace that history and consider the implications for us today from Bonhoeffer's own wayfinding with God's Word.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Episode #1: Paths of Resistance
When you resist evil but your attempts end in failure, what do you do? In this episode, Joe and Jonathan explore Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s search for a faithful Christian response to Nazism, which led him down numerous paths of peaceful resistance. But these paths didn't lead where he had envisioned. Join us as we kick off this first season of our new podcast, Wayfinding, in which we explore the life and witness of one particular wayfinder for Christ followers today: the German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Questions, comments, feedback? Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at [email protected]
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL. We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.