Bernard Reymond Translation Canon Tony Dickinson At the end of 2018, several Catholic associations in German-speaking Switzerland asked the Vatican to stop imposing the vow of celibacy on secular priests. Seemingly, the current pope will not give the shadow of ...
Lire la suite...« Surprise! Surprise! » The last Judgement according to the gospel of Matthew
Philippe de Vargas offers a life-giving reading of the account of the last judgement according to the Gospel of Matthew, in which it draws us away from traditional readings of it which could have been made, in order to show ...
Lire la suite...Paraenesis: texts are made to be heard
Jean-Marie de Bourqueney Translation Canon Tony Dickinson The biblical texts were initially written to be heard before they were read. Few people knew how to read. Christians wanted to make what they reckoned to be « Good News » heard. The writing ...
Lire la suite...Kerygma or the story of a word that got too big
Celine Rohmer Translation Canon Tony Dickinson The word kerygma (which comes from Greek) doesn’t belong solely to theology. It is a common noun which didn’t wait for the New Testament writers in order to make sense. It means « proclamation » and ...
Lire la suite...Babel and anti-Babel
(Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-13) Christophe Reymond Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Living together? It’s not simple. There are, in any case, two ways of living together of which the Bible speaks to us: Babel and anti-Babel. Babel? The tower which tried ...
Lire la suite...A worker in your creation
Jean-Paul Hoppstetter From the book “Prayers” Éditions Olivétan et Société Luthérienne, 2008 Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Lord, thank you for creating me active and a servant in your creation. thank you for the toil of women and men who, day ...
Lire la suite...“The sweetest work of my life guiding my hope to heaven”
If Claude Goudimel is today one of the most iconic composers of the Reformation in the 16th century, it is not easy to work out how he got there. Constance Luzzati Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Goudimel was born in Besançon ...
Lire la suite...« Get up and walk » (John 5:1-13)
From this injunction, « Get up and walk », Henri Persoz shows us where it is liberating, the basis for a new life. A life in which we shall (should) in reality be players… Henri Persoz Translation Canon Tony Dickinson This man ...
Lire la suite...There Is No Such Thing as Christian Ecolog
by Pierre-Olivier Léchot translation Louise Thunin At a time when some seek justification for our ecological combat in the Bible, Pierre-Olivier Léchot invites us to look in the Gospel for teachings that call into question our well-entrenched moral convictions. First ...
Lire la suite...Hope
by Jean-François Blancheton translation Louise Thunin For me, hope has a face: that of Jesus of Nazareth, whose words and acts have reached us over space and time. Jesus, the one who goes forth to meet children, women and men ...
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