God is one. Life is one. Trying to live a meaningful one.
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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Painting by Paul Gauguin: The Devil Speaks (1894). If non-Germans ask me outside Germany about Hitler and the extermination of the Jews, I can take it as a personal honor: They obviously feel safe enough to discuss this dark chapter of German history with me (others prefer to avoid the topic in the presence of […]
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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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Actually, I shouldn’t be writing blog posts at all right now. I rather should be sitting in our garden, enjoying a glass of juice, or at least bringing the garden back into shape, which we have let overgrown for far too many years. But gardening is torture in this scorching heat, the dripping sweat is […]
Read out allChristen der (heute) nicht mehr ganz so jungen Generation ist sicher noch gut in Erinnerung, dass Umweltschutz eher was für “die Alternativen” war, die keine “Ewigkeitshoffnung” haben und sich deshalb für das Diesseits einsetzen. Wir Christen aber erwarten das Jenseits, und obendrein glauben wir, dass eines Tages unser vergaster Himmel zusammengerollt (Offb 6,14) und die […]