Is sexual orientation a religious conviction?

by Frank Mathwig | 10 April 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...

Defiant power Easter

by Kommunikation EKS | 28 March 2024

Guest article by Rita Famos in the “Kirchenbote interkantonal” They wanted to kill him. Back then, in Jerusalem. “They” were the powers that be in religion and politics. The occupying power nailed him to the cross. Together with criminals....

“My body – my choice” and the fate of Norma McCorvey

by Frank Mathwig | 20 March 2024

In the shadow of the debate on the legal regulation of abortion 1. Current “#MonCorpsMonChoix” was emblazoned in neon letters on the Eiffel Tower on 8 March 2024 after both French chambers of parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of including the right...

Talking about “God” in a Protestant way

by Kommunikation EKS | 6 March 2024

How can Protestants talk about God? I was confronted with this question in the context of a working group of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, which dealt with the topic of “Christian speaking of God”. The results of our work have yet to be...

Speechless in the face of violence?

by Frank Mathwig | 21 February 2024

Sexualised violence in the church and theology “But since the king did not like it very much that his son, leaving the controlled roads, / roamed cross-country to form his own judgement of the world, / he gave him a carriage and a horse. / ‘Now you no...