If you are like me, you probably spent a fair amount of time over the past three weeks watching the revolution in Egypt unfold on CNN. As I was watching I was also reading the Eric Metaxas biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It was a strange combination, I admit, but it helped me to think about how I should respond to what I was watching.Channeling Bonhoeffer is tricky business because he can be used as an example for almost anything. Yet Metaxas drew out some of Bonhoeffer's most salient words which I think can be helpful in this situation.
Unless you've disengaged, you now know that government supporters are attacking protesters in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen. As the citizens continue to protest, the dictators are baring their teeth. (Read the rest of this story at the Huffington Post here.)
