I totally agree. Marsh reflects on this theme of the suppressed Christian body in the context of Bonhoeffer in prison imagining a day when he could “accept the pleasures of the body. If he could do it again, he told Eberhard, he would accept the grace of the strong sin.”

This brings Marsh to reflect on his own hesitation before sex: “I was still the fifteen-year-old boy who wrote in his journal: ‘Tribulation — earthquakes — hailstorms — 110-pound blocks of ice — sun will go dark — moon won’t shine. Satan wants me as his instrument.’”