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...
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...
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...
by Kommunikation EKS | Mar 28, 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....
by Kommunikation EKS | Mar 6, 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...