In April 1945, a devout pacifist pastor was led to a Nazi gallows for high treason. This episode explores the extraordinary life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from intellectual prodigy to daring resistance worker living a dangerous double life.

We trace his rigorous German upbringing, the Harlem church that transformed his faith, his concepts of cheap grace and costly grace, and his secret work inside the Abwehr smuggling Jewish people to safety and plotting against Hitler.

• How a skeptical, brilliant family immunized him against herd mentality
• The Harlem awakening that turned faith into action
• The Confessing Church and his early radio warning against a misleader
• Why a pacifist joined a conspiracy and chose to sin boldly
• His refusal to escape prison in order to protect his family