Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at the end when Faust ascends, and in the middle when Gretchen calls the heavenly ones to herself in the dungeon. It is the way from the fatherly, ordering heaven to...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
That the idea that happiness is concurrent with one’s favorite occupation, that this favorite occupation takes place in the swing...
The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in which countries fundamental freedoms such as freedom of expression and assembly are guaranteed. Only 240 million people in 39 countries enjoy this comprehensive level of freedom, according to the study....
A new flute was invented in China. A Japanese master, upon hearing the beauty of its sound, took the flute...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a...
The deepest insights are often, or perhaps always, the simplest realizations. “The human only becomes human among humans.” A statement of simple words from the philosopher Johann Fichte, and yet it takes a long life to unpack this sentence, to explore it, and to learn to live it. “It may...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
Angels always appear when people encounter border or boundary situations. […] At such moments they are most likely to be...
Letzte Kommentare