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By Jean-Claude Deroche Translation Louise Thunin In a lay society such as France’s, religious holidays often take on a secular form. Thus, Christmas has become a family gathering dedicated to the joy of the children. Easter and Pentecost are appreciated ...

Goran Sekulowski Translation Tony Dicksinson Hegel wrote that reading the morning paper is a kind of realistic Morning Prayer. Might we extend this thought by saying that the smart-phone, People magazine or television have today replaced morning and evening prayer? ...

Goran Sekulowski Translation Tony Dickinson A great teacher and churchman, liturgist, pastor and preacher, defender of the faith against heresies, enjoying a very wide veneration in various contexts and dying in the odour of sanctity, John Chrystostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, ...

Jean-Marc Tétaz Translation Tony Dickinson * [Translator’s note] In French Protestantism a “multitudinist” church is one which does not demand a profession of faith from its members but welcomes all who are seeking God, as well as their families, and ...

by Jean-Marie de Bourqueney Translation Louise Thunin Brussels, on a winter morning. I’m climbing into the Thalys train for Paris. I sit in my assigned seat, leaving the one next to it free. I warm myself, but I remain in ...

Pierre-Olivier Léchot Translation : The Revd Canon Tony Dickinson Let us not mince words: Martin Luther developed a way of thinking about Judaism which in its main lines takes up pre-modern anti-Semitic discourse as it had developed in his day. ...

by Jérôme Grandet translation Louise Thunin Within the framework of laity, a spiritual counselor might take a path different from the present one, a path organized by different spiritualities. This is what the author, Jérôme Grandet, proposes. He is a ...

By Laurent Gagnebin translation Louise Thunin At a gathering of ministers, the question of the relationship between our faith and other religions came up. Each of us tried to express what the specific quality of Christianity was, in his or ...

Often in the Psalms, we hear this cry, addressed to God : ˝Do not forget!˝ But isn’t it we ourselves who are lacking in memory? If forgetfulness erodes our lives, remembering boosts us, reviving hope. Jacques Juillard translation Louise Thunin As ...

Danièle Dunogent Translation Louise Thunin I believe in God the Father-Mother of our wombs In His desire for me In my desire for Him; And yet we have Crucified, sacrificed The Divine Child: small light Placed for safekeeping in our ...