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.
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.
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. …
Because of a more or less public discussion I’ve been involved in after the outbreak of Putins war in Ukraine and a number of discussions …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
(en) Every year or so we do a theology retreat named “Thinklings” where about 10 theologians and church planters present their reflections on an issue, …
(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 …
(se) Under Coronatiderna började vi inte bara spela in videopoddar, nu gör vi det också varje vecka. Här kommer del två till fyra – inklusive …
(en/de) –deutsch: zur Seite 2 hier klicken Jesus makes the inscrutably complicated law simple and manageable again. We keep digging through the silver mine, desperately …
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 …
(deutsch: zur Seite 2 hier klicken) “Heaven and Earth” is a Rhineland dish made of apples (sky/heaven) and poaties (earth) that reminds me of my …
