Charles Marsh’s biography, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, brings to life the struggles, triumphs, and transformations of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

“Marsh strikes several notes in Strange Glory which other biographers have not adequately emphasized,” commends LA Review of Books. “[T]his Bonhoeffer is profoundly human.”

The New York Times lauds: Marsh “guides his narrative with a steady hand” and “renders Bonhoeffer’s life and thought in exquisite detail and with sympathetic understanding.”

Marsh’s work is a “biographical triumph,” writes John G. Turner of The Christian Century. “Charles Marsh has written a moving, melancholy portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” that “brings readers closer to Bonhoeffer than any prior biographer writing in English.”

The Wall Street Journal notes Marsh’s “rare talent for novelistic detail” and reveres the biography as “truly beautiful and heartbreaking.” The article concludes, “Strange Glory is a splendid book.”

For more information on Marsh’s acclaimed and riveting biography, Strange Glory, click here. To for links to more reviews, click here.

On June 23, 2014, Ambassador Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig hosted their first book salon in their Washington DC residence featuring Charles Marsh. Marsh discussed Strange Glory with an audience of over 100, while editor and publisher Elizabeth Sifton moderated the discussion. A book signing and reception followed.

“Charles Marsh has succeeded in painting the whole picture and bringing this hero-theologian down to earth,” noted Ambassador Wittig.

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On May 8, 2014, Charles Marsh gave a reading and book talk on Strange Glory at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.

David Dark, introducing Charles Marsh, said, “A big thing that Bonhoeffer brings to Charles is an insistence on the church living up to its possibilities in one way or another. And [Charles] seems to have spied in Bonhoeffer an entire new understanding of self, how people relate to one another.”

To watch Marsh’s lecture at Parnassus Books, click here.

Commonweal magazine continues the steady praise of Charles Marsh’s Bonhoeffer biography with its recent review. Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a “splendid biography” that “provide[s] a rich and detailed account of how Bonhoeffer’s immensely eventful life unfolded…[Marsh does] much to sustain Bonhoeffer’s stature as theologian, pastor, and martyr.”

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“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On Sunday and Monday, October 19-20, The Dillard Forum of Trinity United Methodist Church in Richmond, Virginia, will feature Charles Marsh. This year’s forum is entitled, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Explorations of His Life, Thought, and Promise.” Four lectures by Marsh comprise the event, with “The Sources of Bonhoeffer’s Worldly Faith” at 9:30 a.m. and “Bonhoeffer’s Spiritual Awakening” at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Monday’s program includes a lunch coupled with a lecture and an informal discussion on “Bonhoeffer’s Protest against the Nazi Churches” at 12 p.m. and a final lecture focusing on “Bonhoeffer’s Final Questions and Christian Witness in the 21st Century” at 7 p.m. Each individual session has allotted time for a question and answer period.

The seminar events are free and open to the public; however, the Sunday lunch costs $7 and requires that participants reserve their seat by October 17.