Matthew 5.2-10 Louis Pernot Translation Canon Tony Dickinson 3 Happy the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs! 4 Happy those who weep, for they will be consoled! 5 Happy those who are gentle (or humble), for ...
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Gilles Castelnau Translation Louise Thunin Some actors may have lessons to teach ministers and theology students… The actress, Fanny Ardant, is interviewed in the 2015 summer issue of the French monthly, Philosophie, which also interests the interpretors of the Bible ...
Lire la suite...Editorial, October 2015
Raphaël Picon Translation Louise Thunin Some images of God appeal to us. The ones that bear thoughts of movement, creativity, transformation ; the ones that invite us to believe in God as working on embellishing the world, on enriching the possibilities ...
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André Gounelle Translation by Sara MacVane Sébastien Castillion was born in 1515, but the media and the public won’t be paying much attention to the few celebrations planned for the 500th anniversary of his birth. And in one sense that ...
Lire la suite...Death, Bereavement and Courage
Marie-Noële Duchêne Translation Louise Thunin The word for bereavement in French (deuil) comes from the Latin verb dolere : to suffer. Bereavement comes with the loss of a person to whom one has been strongly attached; it is also the grief ...
Lire la suite...New Stakes in Inter-Religious Dialogue
Gérard Leroy Translation Canon Tony Dickinson The expansion of fundamentalism of different kinds, the fall of the Berlin Wall, terrorist violence, have all created a new climate, stirred up by new fears, and spreading confusion in the spirit. As ...
Lire la suite...Questioning equality
André Gounelle Translation Louise Thunin No one escapes inequality. Mother Nature makes us big and small, smart and foolish, strong and weak, beautiful and homely, healthy and sickly. She doesn’t spread agility, cleverness or sensitivity around equally. She makes ...
Lire la suite...The Death of a Friend
Martin Julier-Costes Translated by Sara MacVane To lose a friend isn’t just to engage with the same feelings and emotions which are common to all experiences of loss: a feeling of being wounded, of being isolated, of having lost ...
Lire la suite...Let us bless
James Woody Translation Canon Tony Dickinson The United Protestant Church has embarked on a reflection about blessing. James Woody sums up the deep meaning of the word “blessing”, common and often misunderstood What if the real ...
Lire la suite...Rediscovering : Gaspard de Coligny
Françoise Chevalier Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Born in 1519, two years after Luther posted his ninety-five thesis on the doors of the Church in Wittenberg, Gaspard de Coligny converted to Protestantism in 1560. Everyone knows Gaspard ...
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