by Gilles Castelnau translation Louise Thunin In intercessory prayer, we tell God everything that’s going wrong, what he could do about it, and what the world needs. Yet God is within us and does not act without us. He is ...
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by Abigaïl Bassac translation Louise Thunin The God of Jesus Christ is often considered a ˝father.˝ As for me, I consider him a lover. Of course, to speak of God as a father is meaningful; it corresponds to a certain ...
Lire la suite...Ordo ab chao
by Frédéric-Pierre Isoz translation Louise Thunin The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (AASR, a Masonry rite), on which I am working in the Grand Lodge of France, has for its motto ordo ab chao, and thus we must specify that ...
Lire la suite...Christmas: God is born; does he look like a God ?
Translation Louise Thunin To the young man who has despaired for so long that he is in despair, the grandfather speaks about sparks of brotherhood and murmurs of hope. He adds: believers speak of Jesus, come to meet those who ...
Lire la suite...Abortion is no Joke
By Abigaïl Bassac Translation Louise Thunin On the social networks, the subject of abortion is a cause for confrontation between aggressive, militant pro-lifers, who speak of infant genocide, and extremist pro-choice feminists, who consider it ˝ a commonplace thing we ...
Lire la suite...We Are Never in the Right Place
by HaIm Fabrizio Cipriani Translation Louise Thunin It’s uncommon to find oneself in the right place. The Bible text tells us : And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east ; and there he put the ...
Lire la suite...The Relative Value of Church Institutions
by Gilles Castelnau It’s God who counts What has value, to my mind, is not the fact that we belong to a certain church institution, to a particular Church that is thought to guarantee truth. What’s important is God, our ...
Lire la suite...Mourning our pets is serious business
Jean-Marie de Bourquenay translation Louise Thunin Questioning the link between humans and animals as seen through the prism of pets, Jean-Marie de Bourquenay invites us to rethink our typically Protestant way of accompanying our fellow humans in mourning. One day, ...
Lire la suite...What does Christ mean ?
To be a Christian is to be convinced that Jesus is the Christ. André Gounelle reflects here on the meaning of the term, Christ. He proposes a possible interpetation, without presuming that it is the only true one or that ...
Lire la suite...God ? Why, God is Love !
Gilles Castelnau Translation Louise Thunin A taste of sweetness in a brutish world was the slogan – a happy choice ! – by a brand of chocolate. And our contemporaries adopted and repeated it, proving, finally, that we don’t always ...
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