Religion: Bishop in the Front Line

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He has not made life easy for me. On the contrary. It would have been more comfortable to be without Him than to live with Him. He puts burdens on the soul, which one would rather let pass by unheeded. He exacts a great deal with His demands. And when one thinks that the cross is not so dread, which His children take upon themselves, then comes the moment when it grows very dread indeed . . .

—Report of Jesus of Nazareth by Otto Dibelius

The Marienkirche, in the eastern sector of Berlin,...