In his monumental new book, one of the greatest writers on the relationship of religion to the civil rights movement, Charles Marsh, unequivocally confirms that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was gay. Marsh–Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia–may or may not have intended the title of his epic, glorious and definitive biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, to echo “Strange Fruit,” the song performed by Billie Holiday, but the connection is serendipitous. The song exposed American racism and the lynching of African Americans. Intended ...