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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”. ...

To this question as old as Christianity, André Gounelle offers his analysis, defining the will of God around its drivers, namely love, struggle and life. God did not will the death of Jesus André Gounelle Translation Canon Tony Dickinson In ...

It is four centuries ago, on 23rd May, 1618, that the Thirty Years’ War broke out. Pierre-Olivier Léchot presents the reaction of the great Czech theologian Comenius to what can be considered the first global conflict. . Pierre-Olivier Léchot Translation ...

This very well-known account of what is commonly, but wrongly, called the multiplication of the loaves is familiar to everyone, believers and unbelievers. We are however about to collide with its topicality. It occurs six times in the Gospels, such ...

Henri Persoz Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Matthew 9:9-13 What a delicious meal the three synoptic Gospels report. Gathered there we find many of the groups who intersect with one another all the way through the Gospels. Around Jesus, obviously, there ...

By Emmanuel Argaud Translation Louise Thunin This morning, at the St. Georges station on the twelfth line of the Paris subway, I was meditating on the Bible passage of the day about the folly of proclaiming a God who saves ...