The Gardens are named for Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who from Cell 92 in May 1944 conceived the concept of Religionless Christianity.  75 years later this term describes many:  God sensing people without much of a religious affiliation and seemingly without time to rest and/or contemplate.  The Apostles were the first religionless Christians; men filled with a fire to tell the Story, knowing death a certain outcome (like Christ, they were Jews without a church).   For some, it is not necessarily a bad thing – struggling with one’s faith without the liturgy of others.

From his jail cell, Bonhoeffer wrote of archaic and antiquated traditions and statements of belief (that 75 years later have not changed), thoughts echoed by Sophie’s “Someone, after all, has to start somewhere” … the reader is invited to join these 2 among “the Confessing.”  No one will ever know that you have joined and no one will ever know how many individuals have!  There will never be a “church building,” we are nothing more than a web community that feels God touching our hearts.

We are all “human doings,” rushing here and there.  One needs to pause and reflect a bit to be a “human being.”  Our deaths are a certain outcome;
let’s enjoy being different and making a difference.

Our recommended diversity conversation for March 2019
is Joe Rogans and Jordan Peterson’s