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Instead of the usual Christmas kitsch with aspic and gravy, and in keeping with the literary journey I'm on, I'd rather give you a portrait of the author, sociologist, historian, philosopher and theologian who, in my opinion, has described better than anyone else what the incarnation of heaven actually means in the West of the 20th century.
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There are proverbs that are so wonderfully descriptive that you wonder how anyone else could come up with the idea of promoting a fox to be a goose herder. But this month the world has done it: when the oil sheikh becomes president of the climate conference.
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It feels gloomy, despite the approaching spring. No matter who you talk to, there is always this uncertain something in the room, a latent restlessness, as if we had just discovered a sleeping monster that might just be waking up. Yesterday we were still firmly convinced that monsters didn’t exist at all, because after all, […]
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Over the past year it has become increasingly challenging for me to observe how evangelicals are way too busy with their own little church activities while being perfectly equipped to help the world tackling the climate crisis. This lecture, taught at Communitas virtual Europe conference in 2021, is an attempt of connecting classical free church […]
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Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci: Caricature of a man (1495) So there it is, the first part of the new, big IPCC report on the state of the climate. Published a few days ago, the remaining parts of the report will follow in the next few months. With it comes a new, interactive world atlas […]
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It was the German lawyer, politician and revolutionary Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker who came up with a quote that can be pretty disturbing. He emigrated to the USA – twice. He fought diligently for the improvement of the political systems of Prussia but he also ran into some frustration. It was after his second journey […]
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I’m very proud to announce that we’re having a second round of Thinklings this year, starting today. This is our guiding topic: How do we give order, meaning, and resilience to Christ-communities under what are likely to be increasingly stressful circumstances? How shall the church maintain the integrity of our witness to the living God […]
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Recently I’ve started to immerse myself a little more academically into the subject of future studies. Some might consider this subject as odd as laying Tarot cards, reckoning the whole future thing a pseudo science. And yet we all have to admit that man’s desire for a better understanding of the future is as old […]
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