“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was chaos and confusion. Darkness was upon...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made...
When I look back on my life, I realize that I was often able to take great steps when others saw something in me that I could not yet see in myself, when something became possible that others made possible, which seemed impossible to me. […] If we ask, in...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
When I was researching educational issues at the Central Round Table in the archives of the GDR opposition this summer,...
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her husband is a sailor who was in Turkey when the war broke out. He was able to fly from there to Germany. I. and her young daughter had to flee...
During my social work internship, I met many different people with assistance needs. My very first encounter with the people...
Lately, I have been writing more about “we” than about myself. I often replace the words “me” and “my” with...
What dying tells us about life: The last leaves, already pale on the graphic undergrowth, and the moment of finding in them a gateway to the essence of the world. In the cloud-shrouded silence under the Ettersberg, silence is the gateway to matter and to inner images. As the snow...
A church is a place of energy. The greatest power in the building is found where nothing is built, in...
Peace is when I can let go of this: the craving for ego, the longing for the mother’s breast. Peace...
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