Organ donation – giving what no one is allowed to demand

by Frank Mathwig | Aug 21, 2024

Prof. Dr. Frank Mathwig, ethicist and theologian, contributed to a consultation response on the partial revision of the Transplantation Ordinance on behalf of the Swiss Protestant Reformed Church. In this interview, he sheds light on the church’s position, the...

Ascension Day

by Kommunikation EKS | May 9, 2024

Ascension Day ekes out a shadowy existence among the emotional and moving festivals of the church year. Wrongly so, says Stephan Jütte: without Ascension, Christianity would have remained a sect among others. “For to us a child is born” – “Oh...

Self-determination – and now?

by Frank Mathwig | May 8, 2024

The current debate on assisted suicide I. State of affairs In a ruling on 13 March 2024, the Federal Supreme Court acquitted the doctor and Vice President of Exit Western Switzerland, Pierre Beck. In 2017, he had helped an 86-year-old woman of sound mind to commit...

What does “coming to terms” with sexualised violence mean?

by Frank Mathwig | May 1, 2024

The challenge for the churches “The perceptions of victims and those who may be perpetrators – however directly or indirectly – tend to be very different. The victims do not experience the facts or their meaning in the same way as mere observers or...

Is sexual orientation a religious conviction?

by Frank Mathwig | Apr 10, 2024

About “conversion therapies” 1. Clarification of terms The much-cited “new complexity”, originally diagnosed by Jürgen Habermas, also applies to the areas of sex and gender. The impossibility of conclusive (objective) gender definitions follows...