The death of Traute Lafrenz Page on the evening of March 6, 2023, two months before her 104th birthday, was...
My social identity is a sheath, within which my “I” can be effective. My affiliation with the Western world determines...
What does it take to find the strength within, in a moment of complete and total despair? It is our strange human ability to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and keep trying again. It requires a will that often finds its way into a human being once they have...
In all four of the gospels – but especially in Luke – the organ of the heart plays an essential,...
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
I look at the beautiful, and the beautiful looks at me—this is how our present is created. “And beauty lies exhausted in the streets,” says a song by Nick Cave. Homeless, unnoticed, rushed, exhausted, and tired, beauty lies on the side of the road and perhaps no longer feels itself....
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
To become friends, we need to get to know each other. This is the point invoked in the famous scene...
Our eyes can adapt to darkness. At first, when we walk out of the sunlight into a dark cave or tunnel, we are disorientated. If we go from a brightly lit street into a dark forest at night, the darkness might even frighten us. But if we are patient, our...
How we are engaging with the “transgender phenomenon” highlights a signature of our times: we have reached the end of...
Or: What do I actually want to say? Correctly gendered text, inclusive language, racism, feminism — it’s not often that...
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