Before and after a meeting It is usual, Or more precisely… it was, that every meeting or gathering of your faithful Opens with a moment of prayer. It’s a sound custom to give you the floor first, But the danger, ...
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Landmarks The aims of preaching Isabelle Grellier-Bonnal Preaching has been at the heart of Protestant worship since the Reformation. Against the Catholic mass, which placed at its centre the Eucharist – the words of which were incomprehensible to the faithful ...
Lire la suite...A view from elsewhere
With the first issue of 2022, our magazine launched a new section: vue d’ailleurs… vue d’avant. The idea is to offer you some food for thought on how our convictions, ideas and principles have evolved over time and space. The ...
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By Emmanuel Argaud translation Louise Thunin « He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, whom they asked for ; but Jesus he delivered up to their will » (Luke, 23 : 25). I’m ...
Lire la suite...BEFORE GOD
Béatrice Cléro-Mazire Translation Louise Thunin Lord, Grant us the humility to avoid believing that We know how to create the world. We must build tomorrow ; we know that, But we are ignorant of so many things that others know ...
Lire la suite...BEFORE GOD
Béatrice Cléro-Mazire translation Louise Thunin Lord, Grant us the humility to avoid believing that We know how to create the world. We must build tomorrow ; we know that, But we are ignorant of so many things that others know ...
Lire la suite...The Koran as a source of Feminism
Feminism and Islam, at first sight nowadays, appear to be opposed. Micheline Bochet-Milan attempts in a practical way to shed a new light on this subject, especially in the case of Morocco. By Micheline Brochet-Milon Translation Louise Thunin In Europe ...
Lire la suite...No Apologies for Being a Liberal
By James Woody Translation Louise Thunin The Bible is not the word of God, but a collection of beliefs about what gives value to life. Religion is not a magical practice that attracts supernatural favors but the art of examining ...
Lire la suite...What do you make of the Bible? Double reading
Abigail Bassac Translation Tony Dickinson It seems to me that I have two quite distinct ways of reading the Bible. The first is rather as if it were a work of art. Just as I re-read some of Jane Austen’s ...
Lire la suite...Judges 19, a text of terror
Valérie Duval-Poujol Translation Tony Dickinson This terrible account of the rape, then the death and dismemberment of the Levite’s partner expresses perhaps the paroxysm of the violence between men and women such as can be read in so many Old ...
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