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A Spark of Hope

Somehow I feel the need to remind ourselves again how insignificant and irrelevant theology is in the ruts of today’s everyday life. So uninteresting that most don’t even get as far as the second sentence here, because you switch off right away with “theology”. On the other hand, anyone who has made it to this […]

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Ekklesia – Heavenly Politics In this World yet Not Of this World

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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Thinklings

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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Let’s get serious! (en)

From a missiological point of view the time has come for the Wesern church to be a much more convincing witness. In the West, Christians are losing increasingly more ground. We simply could deny that fact, we also could mourn it, or we can see it as an opportunity. Personally I’m regarding it as an […]

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Love the Church of the Future (en)

In March 2019 the first European Future Church Symposium ever took place in Amsterdam. The third and last plenary talk tackles some implications of talk one and two: What if the church would really move to reflect the God of the Future? (Speaker: Marcus Fritsch, Gothenburg)

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Love the Future! (en)

In March 2019 the first European Future Church Symposium ever took place in Amsterdam. The first out of three plenary talks gives an overview of current changes in the world and what this means for the future of the church. (Speaker: Marcus Fritsch, Gothenburg)

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