Pastor who stood up to the Nazis

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 @ 00:00

A. E. Gordon dwells on the life of Paul Schneider, a German pastor killed by the Nazis 70 years ago this month

IT IS humbling to live one’s life in the shadow of a martyr — for that is what Pastor Paul Schneider undoubtedly was.

What, after all, is a martyr? Not simply someone who is killed by a dictatorial authority, but someone who sees everything in black and white: under Hitler’s rule, someone who had made the teaching of Jesus Christ so much the core of his being that he could not fail to distinguish clearly between the demands of the Kingdom of heaven and the ...

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'St Mary Magdalene Church, Greenlaw Street open this evening for those who want to pray and reflect on this tragic incident.' #Woolwich

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Bishop of Woolwich comments on this afternoon's suspected terror attack: http://t.co/R9HP3xKvOo