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There's a kid and a teenager isolated in a glass cube. Outside, there's a doctor looking at the kid, holding a syringe, like he was was ready to complete his task, but got stopped. On the side of the teenager are other teenagers, showing him their phones.

The Bulletin

Social Media Bans, Hep-B Vaccine, Notre Dame Snubbed, and the 1939 Project

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Australia bans social media for kids, CDC’s recommendations change, college football uproar, and the far right lens on history.

The book cover on an orange background.

Excerpt

You Know Them As Fantasy Writers. They Were Soldiers Too. 

Joseph Loconte

An excerpt from ‘The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945.’

Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg.’

Review

The ‘Never Again’ of ‘Nuremberg’ Comes with a Warning

Myles Werntz

The new film asks how the Holocaust happened: and whether it could happen again.

Nick Fuentes

Public Theology Project

The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously

Russell Moore

Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians.

A Japanese American girl sitting in an internment camp and an immigrant and his son sitting on the ground

We Should Not Be Silent This Time

Raymond Chang

Most churches did nothing as Japanese Americans faced mass incarceration during World War II. We must do better for immigrant communities today.

Bonhoeffer's desk

What Do We Want from Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

Laura M. Fabrycky

A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends.

An image of London residents in 1940 hiding in an underground station during a Nazi bombing raid and an image of Ukrainians in 2023 hiding in a subway station during Russian missile airstrikes

War Changes Everything—and Nothing

Mark Meynell

A WWII-era C.S. Lewis sermon makes the case for “business as usual,” even when violence rages, as in Ukraine.

A still from the movie depicting Bonhoeffer sitting and thinking at his desk.

‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality

Myles Werntz

The new biopic from Angel Studios twists the theologian’s life and thought to make a political point.

A photo of Nazis and a protestant bishop with white scribbles over it on a red background

5 Lessons Christians Can Learn from the Barmen Declaration

Kimlyn Bender

How a wartime confession resisted Hitler’s Nazification of the German church, and why its principles are still relevant today.

An Alternative to the Bonhoeffer Option

Jared Stacy

Christians today can learn from WWII-era theologian K.H. Miskotte about resisting without resorting to political violence.

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