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Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey

Today's anxieties about digital culture are prefigured in the long and wobbly history of books.

Reason

Why visiting art galleries can leave you flat on the floor

"After about 15 minutes I've had enough."

The Canberra Times

Christoph von Dohnányi obituary

Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra in the US, the Philharmonia in London and at major opera houses

The Guardian - UK

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Christoph von Dohnányi, who led Cleveland Orchestra until 2022, dies at 95

Christoph von Dohnányi, the renowned conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, has died at age 95

The Independent UK

New Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic is a grossly misleading portrait of the anti-Nazi dissident

The complexities of history have always posed problems for commercial cinema. With rare exceptions, mainstream historical films tend to flatten the inconveniently irregular textures of individual biographies and their context into simpler templates of good and evil, valour and villainy.

The Conversation

‘Standing up against the devil’: how the far right tried to co-opt Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic

In the US, Todd Komarnicki’s biopic of the theologian murdered by the Nazis was marketed using Maga rhetoric. The film-maker explains the heartbreak this caused him

The Guardian - UK

Bonhoeffer review – solid biopic of German pacifist pastor murdered by the Nazis

If you can ignore the dodgy accents and liberties with the truth (a pacifist theologian involved in bomb plots?) then this no-frills film will hold interest

The Guardian - UK

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The Battle For Bonhoeffer: Martyr's Legacy In Modern Controversy

Learn about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian and anti-Nazi resistor, whose legacy continues to inspire discussions on morality, resistance, and f...

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Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? An AP Explainer about the anti-Nazi pastor

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian from Germany executed by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39 for his role in a resistance movement

The Independent UK

What would Bonhoeffer do? Anti-Nazi pastor's legacy claimed, debated across political spectrum

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of life.”

The Independent UK

How the Christian right is twisting the legacy of an anti-Nazi hero

As the election approaches, experts say a rightwing author is using the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer – executed for resisting Hitler – as a figurehead against the left, raising fears of political violence

The Guardian - US

Is it right or wrong to post about conflict on social media?

Perhaps it’s not about judging the act of posting or not about the war between Hamas and Israel, but interrogating the intentions behind it, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

The Guardian - UK

Morrison's Christian empathy needs to be about more than just prayer – it requires action, too

Over the past week, Australians have heard Scott Morrison make several explicit references to his faith. Given Morrison has placed his faith front and centre of his public persona, it is helpful to try to understand how he perceives his faith and how it might intersect with his job as…

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