Tag: Christianity
Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine threatened with schism – culture
Of Sonja Zekri For Orthodox Christianity, Easter, not Christmas, is the highest festival of the year. This year she celebrates it next Sunday – according to the Julian calendar. In…
Easter customs in Bavaria: Torch relays and yeast storks – Bavaria
The eggs, the rabbit, the chocolate and going to church, for some still the end of Lent. So far, so traditionally Easter, or sometimes not at all. On the other…
Thomas Mann’s novel “The Chosen One” in the critical edition – culture
Of his short novels it is the shortest, but for many readers the dearest. Because Thomas Mann’s “The Elect”, published in 1951, shows everything that this writer “could” do, possibly…
Diet: praise of gluttony in times of dieting – Opinion
Less than two weeks and it’s Ash Wednesday! Time to renounce gluttony by paying the tribute a few more times and prepare for fasting by making renunciation a source of…
Why the story of the Christmas miracle remains so current – opinion
The Christmas story is a story of wondrous and provocative perversions – and it resists despair of the world because it is too good not to be true. About hope,…
How Much Science is in the Bible? – Dachau
Gerhard Haszprunar is a biology professor and he knows the Bible. A conversation about the question of why Jesus should actually be a woman and what that has to do…
Why Denominational Schools Are So Popular – Careers
Social commitment, mindfulness, but also courage are values that are lived in Protestant schools. Which also speaks for them. from Miriam Hoffmeyer When a couple of 13-year-olds simply go out…
Review of Kurt Flasch’s book “Christianity and Enlightenment” – Culture
It can get tricky discussing the new book by an older, well-deserved writer. Should you take a critical look at it like all other new releases? Didn’t that seem inappropriate,…