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 …
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 …
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 …
Tro & Tvivel (Faith & Doubt) podcast 5 This episode is a liverecording from the Faith & Doubt Event in August 2018. The Canadian theologian …
GERMAN TRANSLATION HERE / ZUR DEUTSCHEN ÜBERSETZUNG The student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle is one of the greatest Greek philosophers. But allowing him …
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 …
GERMAN TRANSLATION HERE / ZUR DEUTSCHEN ÜBERSETZUNG Christians are called to be “in this world” yet “not of this world”. That is what Jesus prayed …
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 …
In March 2019 the first European Future Church Symposium ever took place in Amsterdam. The second out of three plenary talks presents God as the …
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 …
Bruxy is a Canadian theologian and was our guest at Faith and Doubt (tro och tvivel) in Sweden. The first 90 seconds are in Swedish. …
Kelli Gotthardt, California: Why the church continues to silence victims and a small step forward.
Ole Fritsch, Sweden: We are free to eat what we want. But are we supposed to?