God is one. Life is one. Trying to live a meaningful one.
Christian dialogue with those who think differently serves our own strength, maturity and credibility. Above all, however, it prevents the extinction of the European church. “I agree with atheists on a lot, basically almost everything, except that God doesn’t exist,” says Czech priest Tomáš Halík. I found this statement so beneficial that I keep picking […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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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Finally! We managed to build sinless societies, surprisingly without the need of any redeemer. Sin is gone! Even churches don’t like to talk about it anymore. Today, however, I was asked about “the definition of sin” and I thought: Hm…, there is no quick answer to it. Maybe it’s time for a sinful blog post. […]
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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(de/en [page 2]) Jahrelang trieb ich mich in diversen OP-Sälen herum, wohnte Gefälligkeiten wie Schädelöffnungen oder Amputationen bei. Obwohl ich wusste, wie die Luft eines OPs verteilt und gefiltert werden muss, um den Saal so sicher und keimfrei wie möglich zu halten, trugen alle im OP ein Ding im Gesicht, das uns alle gleichmachte: Einen […]
(en) For several weeks our European Communitas* community have held Monday afternoon meetings for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the unusual times we’re finding ourselves in. One thing we identified is the weak theology of suffering we find in many contemporary free churches. God, the Bible, and Life almost always needs to […]
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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 […]
GERMAN TRANSLATION HERE / ZUR DEUTSCHEN ÜBERSETZUNG No, I’m not talking about the band. I’m talking about our present state of development, our way of life, our condition, shape. A dirty cunning lad, this Status Quo. He tells us the tale of eternal growth, new opportunities, valuable increases in sales or breasts. He promises updates […]