Heinrich, Sarah

Sarah Heinrich is Associate Professor of New Testament at Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Commemorating Kaj Munk, Summer 1999

On this date fifty-one years ago, a body was found in a ditch alongside a road. This was no business man, no victim of robbers who trudged along from one city to the next. This was Kaj Munk, a playwright and faithful parish pastor in Denmark—shot in the head by the Nazis who were occupying his country.