Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist Hymnal, No. 261): In it, the Logos speaks about itself as the God of dance. I danced in the morningWhen the world began, It is a God so great that...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and...
Ethical AI? “[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It’s a deep, almost metaphysical understanding.” These words may well be reminiscent of some descriptions of intuitive cognition as they arose in the context...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
We do not read in order to collect information, but rather to learn and practice reading, in every sense. On...
Car, motorcycle, electric bike, and on foot – these are the different methods of transport available to me for my three-kilometre trip to the Goetheanum. Four ways of moving at four different speeds, four different relationships to the environment, four forms of experience, four ways of arriving, with four different...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made...
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