(Luke 13:6-9) Translation Canon Tony Dickinson This story of the barren fig tree carries within it some fundamental questions, not resolved today any better than they were 2000 years ago. Christianity will always have something to say about the fact ...
Lire la suite...The Link Between Evangelical Religion and Political Disaster
By Jeanne Marie Gagnebjn Translation Louise Thunin For someone from a European milieu, protestant, and politically on the left, the political disaster we see in Brazil raises numerous questions. I have lived and worked in this beautiful and terrifying country ...
Lire la suite...Thanks, Arthur !
By Jean-François Blancheton Tranlation Louise Thunin His parents, Catholics, told Arthur, their son of six, that they were going to the protestant church in the afternoon to pray. His grandmother, originally a Protestant, had died of illness a few days ...
Lire la suite...Free to Be Yourself
By Jérôme Grandet Tranlation Louise Thunin I like pop culture, heavy metal/hardcore and rap. I mainly read mangas, science fiction and comics. In these art forms I find my inner resources. I play the beatbox and bass. I don’t care ...
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By Gilles Castelnau translation Louise Thunin When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do (…) He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people. (Exodus 1 : ...
Lire la suite...My Poor Fellow… My Heaven!
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 ...
Lire la suite...Theodore Beza, poet
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 ...
Lire la suite...Healings, hidden and unveiled
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 ...
Lire la suite...God’s Gardeners
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 ...
Lire la suite...The naked young man
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 ...
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