The « Remonstrants », a Dutch Protestant sect founded in the seventeenth century, today want a Church in which a diversity of opinions will be allowed. They have nothing against the credo as such. They consider such texts as useful ...
Lire la suite...Celebrating the Lord’s Supper
Without giving a great importance to the way in which we celebrate the supper, we can question our practices and wonder if they are satisfying. It isn’t a matter of multiplying rituals, but of finding suggestions in what happens elsewhere. ...
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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 journey, and ...
Lire la suite...Rediscovering Silence in a World of Noise
Goran Sekulowski. Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Hegel wrote that reading the morning paper is a kind of realist morning prayer. Might we extend this thought by showing that the smartphone, People Magazine or the television have today replaced morning and ...
Lire la suite...Wisdom lived among us (John 1:14)
Henri Persoz suggests a reflection on dogma, the mystery of the incarnation, unveiling one of the possible « liberal » approaches to this wonder. An approach which not only leaves room for nuance but challenges each one of us. Translation Canon Tony ...
Lire la suite...The neglected centuries
Protestant theology has been constructed over centuries. We shouldn’t look for it only among the Reformers, but also among their successors who were able to enrich it, renew it, reorient it and rectify it. A recent book retraces the successive ...
Lire la suite...God’s Gardeners
(Luke 13:6-9) Translation Canon Tony Dickinson This story of the barren fig tree carries within it some fundamental questions, not resolved today any better than they were 2000 years ago. Christianity will always have something to say about the fact ...
Lire la suite...The Link Between Evangelical Religion and Political Disaster
By Jeanne Marie Gagnebjn Translation Louise Thunin For someone from a European milieu, protestant, and politically on the left, the political disaster we see in Brazil raises numerous questions. I have lived and worked in this beautiful and terrifying country ...
Lire la suite...Thanks, Arthur !
By Jean-François Blancheton Tranlation Louise Thunin His parents, Catholics, told Arthur, their son of six, that they were going to the protestant church in the afternoon to pray. His grandmother, originally a Protestant, had died of illness a few days ...
Lire la suite...Free to Be Yourself
By Jérôme Grandet Tranlation Louise Thunin I like pop culture, heavy metal/hardcore and rap. I mainly read mangas, science fiction and comics. In these art forms I find my inner resources. I play the beatbox and bass. I don’t care ...
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