You were probably not aware that I am a retired Marine until now, and you might have heard that Marines don’t like books unless they’re coloring books.  You might be right.  So then, why am I writing about books?  Well, all Marines go through the amoeba stage where we tear the covers off books until…

“This is the end.  For me the beginning of life.” These are the last known words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, spoken on the way to the gallows to be hung by members of the S.S. Black Guard in April, 1945 in the Flossenburg concentration camp.  He was executed because of his faith.  He was not just…