In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable...
Who could have imagined the twists and turns of the past two years? Our altered cultural landscape can’t be explained...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface of the water. In 1936, a colleague lent him a pair of underwater goggles, and his fascination became limitless. The colorful life on the seabed, unknown to ordinary mortals, seemed...
What dying tells us about life: The last leaves, already pale on the graphic undergrowth, and the moment of finding...
If we are all islands, it is the water that connects us. To get to you, I have to move,...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a giveaway box. It has a red heart painted on a blue background. He just puts it on the table, without a comment, and disappears into his room. I walk behind...
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
Michael is on his way. He now understands that drug counseling doesn’t mean that, instead of the drugs, now I...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day in quarantine, without any of them being sick. I asked him: «Your best, why, what for?» This superlative is a construct of the modern man. It feels much more natural...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
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