Somewhat surprisingly, a number of people—on both the left and the right—have recently drawn parallels between Germany in the 1930s and America today. As an expert on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Charles Marsh argues that it would be irresponsible to draw too tight of a connection between that time and our own. We are living in a very different world. And yet there are a number of important lessons that must be learned from the past—and especially from Bonhoeffer’s heroic resistance to evil. Charles Marsh is the Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is an expert on modern Christian thought with a particular emphasis on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the role of faith within the civil rights movement. Professor Marsh is the author of a riveting and insightful biography entitled, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.