«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a child, he was allowed to bring friends home anytime. The extended family was used to providing for many, and having two or three more mouths at the lunch table did...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
Sonja Zausch, Bart Vanmechelen, and Jan Göschel, the three leaders of the Council for Inclusive Social Development, have put these two words in the subtitle of their autumn meeting. The Irish writer C.S. Lewis showed how closely the two virtues are connected in his book ‹The Four Loves›. In it,...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and...
Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
Peace is when I can let go of this: the craving for ego, the longing for the mother’s breast. Peace begins when weapons fall silent. For this, will is required.Peace needs contentment, sufficiency but not bloatedness.Peace needs the will to show consideration for the needs of others.Peace needs to overcome...
Older Christian tradition considered human beings to be connected to the world in two ways. As ‹creatures of nature›, human...
As comrades of fate, whether local or migrated, we have to take on the heavy legacy that the Millennial Empire...
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