God is one. Life is one. Trying to live a meaningful one.
Das prognostiziert jedenfalls eine der am wenigsten christlichen Institutionen des Landes: Das schwedische Fernsehen SVT. /// At least that's the prediction of one of the country's least Christian institutions: Swedish television SVT.
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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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The first stages of this journey to the centre of thought may have been a little bumpy. But now it gets turbulent. Horst-Eberhard Richter's "The God Complex" really stirs up the subconscious.
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I wasn't sure whether to put this book on my public reading list about my literary walk. But I know that big decisions are only as good as their preparation, and the more they influence the future, the deeper and more firmly they must be rooted in history. That's why the book 'Thinking in Time' should be part of the journey.
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Advent, Advent, not a candle, the whole world is burning.
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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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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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