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by Gilles Castelnau Translation Louise Thunin   When a journalist told Donald Trump that he hadn’t garnered more votes than other presidents, and that his euphoric declaration was fake news, neither he nor his Midwestern electorate were the least bit ...

  Constance Luzzati translated by Sara MacVane   Music sustains the important moments of our worship services, and has a bigger role than that as well. Johann Sebastian Bach believed that music should not serve any end other than praising ...

by James Woody Translation Louise Thunin   It’s often said that the sermon is the center of Reformed Church worship. That’s my opinion as well. However, it’s not enough that a person should speak for about twenty minutes, after having ...

by Agnès Adeline-Schaeffer Translation Louise Thunin In the subway, my car stops in front of an advertisement for Médecins du monde (Doctors of the World). I’m captivated by the reality of the photograph. A refugee camp with tents. Black and ...

By a group of liberal ministers Translation Louise Thunin Prayer is my inner voice at each and every moment of my life, conversing with an invisible presence which I call « You. » In my prayer, I express aloud, alone or together ...

Jacques Musset translated by Sara MacVane The official position of the Catholic Church disallows to women all positions of ordained ministry: pope, bishop, priest, and deacon, which are open to men. To many Christians, and to many non-Christians as well, ...

By Jean-Pierre Pairou Translation Louise Thunin     There’s a question that bothers me every time I hear and see our Christian communities, theoretically demonstrating ˝good feelings˝, yet worried about not going overboard or about going too far, being careful, ...

  by Jacques Juillard Translation Louise Thunin In the imaginary passageway between a dying year and another we take for new, I would like, at last, to emerge from the verbal stagnation in which my life has become stuck.   ...

By Claude Henri Valloton Translation Louise Thunin   How can we grow ? How can we go from infancy to childhood to adulthood ? How can we become truly human ? It’s the work of a lifetime, and includes ambiguity, humour, utopia, and ...

Mohamed Sghir Janjar Translation Canon Tony Dickinson There are today two ways of responding to the question which takes the place of a title for this article. On the one side, the traditional one of the various strands of “Qur’anic ...