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Zwingli, the Pastor (1481-1531)

Andre Gounelle Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Less well known than Luther and Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli however followed quite a similar career.  He contributed a great deal to the development of the Reformed Churches in German-speaking Switzerland.  He was also a ...

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Talking about God with Luther

Pierre-Olivier Lechot Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Can we still read Luther? Nearly five centuries after he posted the 95 theses, the question deserves to be asked.  After all, Luther believed in the devil, in hell, in angels and demons and ...

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Reading Luther

Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard Translation Canon Tony Dickinson We haven’t finished with Luther. “We” Christians, “we” Europeans, “we” westerners, in any event “we” Protestants.  Around 1517, the theologian Martin Luther constructed a new language, a new way of being Christian, a new “being ...

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All things considered

translation Canon Tony Dickinson   Tell them Patient at the Borromeo University Hospital, Montreal (Canada). what the wind tells the rocks what the sea tells the cliffs Tell them that an immense goodness makes us breathe more easily Tell them ...

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Resurrection

Gilles Castelnau translation Canon Tony Dickinson If you think that in reality the shepherds will never go off to look for a new-born swaddled in a manger that the angels will not sing in the fields that the Magi will ...

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Prayer

Pierre Couprie translation Canon Tony Dickinson Look, Lord! We have set up our camp halfway along the road of life. fear of the unknown, fatigue and doubt keep us in this place. The joy of beginnings crumbles away on the ...

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Eschatology

  By Henri Persoz   Translaton Louise Thunin   This word, of Greek origin, doesn’t mean much to our contemporaries. It’s reserved for theologians. It comes from eschato, which means, the last, referring to the end of the world, to ...

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A Creator God

By Henri Persoz Translation Louise Thunin The idea of a creator God is not essential in the Bible. It scarcely appears in the New Testament, and not at all in the gospels. In the history of the people of Israel, ...

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Fake News

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 ...

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Music

  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 ...

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