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 ...
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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 ...
Lire la suite...Give them something to eat yourselves
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 ...
Lire la suite...Jesus isn’t interested in the righteous
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 ...
Lire la suite...Listening, Hearing… Folly
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 ...
Lire la suite...A Walk Along the Buddhist Faith
Jiko Simone Wolf tells us about her spiritual path, her discovery of Buddhism, her meeting with a master, her commitment in a Zen temple ; here, we see the main points of this « way. » By Jiko Simone Wolf ...
Lire la suite...God is a Drag Queen
God is unexpected, He is other, as the Bible reveals. Where else do otherness and the unexpected reveal themselves in our day and age if not in the strange figure of the drag queen ? Maxime Michelet points out the ...
Lire la suite...Peter and John. The First Morning
by Albéric de Palmaert translation Loise Thunin Cleanse our eyes, Lord, Of the veil of certainties That enclose our hearts, a veil harder than the rock That kept watch over the tomb Where your friends placed you, But give us ...
Lire la suite...I Love Beer and Jesus Christ !
by Christophe Cousinié translation Louise Thunin Based on what might be a simple, practical question concerning whether or not to put a sticker on one’s car, Christophe Cousinié reflects in this article on blasphemy and freedom of religion. That’s a ...
Lire la suite...Meet You Behind Bars
Thomas Isler Thomas Isler has been a prison chaplain in the canton of Neuchâtel for nearly 13years. In this article he elaborates on his conception of this ministry Translation Louise Thunin Before greeting a prisoner in his modest living space, ...
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