What is the significance of tears today? Does what brings us to cry, bring us to our ‘I’? How do...
Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society. The first wave of people born...
Franka Henn begins the conversation with Bart Vanmechelen by asking him about his capacity to be humorously self-deprecating. Bart says that he grew up with the ethos of not taking himself too seriously. Self-deprecation is no doubt part of his expertise in social therapy, the field in which he works....
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community...
In Memory of Margot Friedländer One cold January morning in 1943, Margot Friedländer’s brother was arrested in the family apartment...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics for a year 10 class. So the students divided up into six teams and sat around a big table. Each team got 500 grams of raw macaroni noodles and a...
Your path constantly leads to a fork in the road, though it often goes unnoticed because habit takes over the...
A deepening respect and awe for the human being come about on the path to self-knowledge. The regular, the day-to-day,...
It occurs to me that I will not survive purgatory. I realize, all too painfully, that I also have a part in this, a dark share in what is happening, and it destroys me, it shatters me, as if in a volcanic mine. Nothing will remain of my identity, my...
The sculpture of the Representative of Humanity, known as the “Group,” invites an inner conversation, a search for its center—“in...
For a generation now, the voices that come to the druid beneath the cromlech have been changing. The Sun-Word, around...
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