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Cry for help at Christmas

You might think that there would be no room for resignation and sadness at Christmas. As if we had to decorate ourselves with shiny joy like a shopping center at Christmas. Is this a culture that free churches maintain throughout the rest of the year – always peace, joy, cheerfulness? If that is the case, we will lose the younger generations. Here’s a suggestion for how congregations can become islands of hope again, especially for the young, especially today.

When the Fox Guards the Geese

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.

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 …

Matters of Power

Before my annual missiology lectures begin next week, I don’t just have to update my lessons and presentations this week. I also need to sort …

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 …

The Futures

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 …

Pandemic Prayer

(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 …