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By Emmanuel Argaud Translation Louise Thunin ”Would you happen to have ten cents ? Please, I’m hungry.“ Beyond the imposed communication barrier which makes us suspicious of one another in spite of ourselves, I felt drawn to the supplication of ...

Pierre-Olivier Léchot translation Canon Tony Dickinson Pierre-Olivier Léchot invites us here to rediscover “Calvin’s Successor”, the austere elder whose severe gaze even today intimidates the passers-by who linger at the “Wall of the Reformers” in Geneva. Yet he was a ...

Agnès Adeline-Schaeffer Translation Tony Dickinson (Mark 5:21-34) Here are two stories of healing so closely linked that one is embedded in the other. This is the story of a man’s supplication to Jesus for his daughter, interrupted by the intervention ...

Henri Persoz Translation Tony Dickinson (Luke 13:6-9) This story of the barren fig tree carries within it some fundamental questions, which are resolved today no better than they were 2000 years ago. Christianity will always have something to say about ...

Jacques Juillard Translation Tony Dickinson Mark 14.50 What is this young man doing in this relentless narrative where every detail carries meaning? Further on, at the empty tomb, another young man appears. Or is it the same one? He was ...

by Laurent Gagnebin translation Louise Thunin This year the media have widely celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Albert Camus (1913-1960). The Covid-19 pandemic has led many people to read or reread The Plague (1947). It reminds us ...

by James Woody Translation Louise Thunin I’ve given up opening the Bible to figure out how to react to a certain situation or to answer a specific question. I remember doing that when I was much younger, when there was ...

By Frédéric Fournier Translation Louise Thunin A mystic is a person usually viewed pejoratively in Protestantism. According to their critics, a mystic is a person who wants to reach God by his own strength and the use of spiritual exercises. ...

by Jean-François Blancheton translation Louise Thunin The service is almost over. It’s time for announcements. As usual, the board member who comes to speak about the activities of our local church asks if anyone would like so speak. A man ...

Translation Canon Tony Dickinson (John 19,5) Vincens Hubac From the famous phrase attributed to Pilate, Vicens Hubac shows us that it is full of meaning, that it carries in its simplicity, « the extraordinary power of a love that transcends us ». ...