And as the time of the fifty days neared its fulfilment, they were waiting with shared devotion for the beginning...
Now we’ll be writing the number 26 at the top of letters and documents for another year. It is worth...
Over on a somewhat isolated shelf in my family’s kitchen, you’ll find the cookbooks. They don’t get much attention, except for one whose cover has long since been lost and whose grease and flour stains bear witness to frequent use, especially on the page that explains how to braid a...
Tenderness manifests itself in many different ways in different layers of our being. Tender Thoughts Thoughts are relationships between two...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
A church is a place of energy. The greatest power in the building is found where nothing is built, in the crossing at the middle—the center of the church. The architect Lothar Bracht pointed this out in lectures. The center is free—a place of freedom, a place of development. Applied...
“As long as one doesn’t see their own part in a wound, the healing power cannot come.” Joachim Eckl said...
I have come to realize that everything that can be truly understood can be revealed through a parable. Both the...
“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 perception of the other takes place in the tension between self-surrender and self-assertion. When two people meet, we attempt...
The angel’s color on the edge of early morning clouds is like a first tender “Let there be.” One creative...






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