Common decency says we should not liken anything today to 1930’s Germany. In light of what has happened recently and what may lie ahead, maybe it would be wiser if we did.

It may be that the turbulent times stir previously comfortable hearts to a new level of openness. When those moments come, we must offer Jesus to a needy world.

Today, we live in a world of indolence that strengthens people with sinister agendas, whatever their ideology or religion may be. 

I don’t want to condemn the church in the 1930s without acknowledging how easily cowed the church in the 2020s might prove to be. 

Society may be conditioned to support an approved narrative, but we are called to be men and women of truth. 

I’d like to ponder what Nazi Germany might mean for how we preach and influence both church and society in our tumultuous times.