Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
“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...
It is said that we are all equal before God. Standing naked in the temple, we become aware of the...
Karma is accident (Zufall in German): that which befalls you. At least in appearance. I cannot produce it myself—only experience...
Fragile and needy, a child comes into the world—a world in which we are fond of displaying strength, intelligence, and free will. The child, on the other hand, is dependent, and its existence is at stake. They can do what we adults have forgotten: they are unconditionally devoted to their...
It is in the nature of things that inspiration, the middle of the three stages of knowledge—the transitions between which...
During a workshop on life’s big questions, we were invited to write down on a slip of paper what superpower...
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was chaos and confusion. Darkness was upon the face of the primordial depths. The spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.” The Bible translation by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig begins with how we...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
Sonja Zausch, Bart Vanmechelen, and Jan Göschel, the three leaders of the Council for Inclusive Social Development, have put these...
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