It is a summer Sunday in northern Germany. For decades, people have been practicing and transcending resistance through the Gorleben...
Franka Henn begins the conversation with Bart Vanmechelen by asking him about his capacity to be humorously self-deprecating. Bart says...
Go outdoors with a friend. Find a tree. Stand for a moment and gaze at it. Take a deep breath. Consider that you breathe in what the tree releases into the air. And that the tree takes in what you breathe out. What is it like to breathe with the...
When speaking of Africa, it’s not uncommon to speak of ‹Mother Africa› or the ‹motherland›, which corresponds to the Egyptian...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir was offered at the local cinema, Stadtkino. I saw Bab’Aziz (2005) as a poem as much as a film. Gentle, unprovocative, deeply sensorial, it’s the story of the present-day...
The angel’s color on the edge of early morning clouds is like a first tender “Let there be.” One creative...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
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...
It is the developing human being in every human being, and what a teacher does is not put anything in,...
What comes after life? Hundreds of years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in life after death;...
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