The Scent of the Divine

Martin Kämpchen The Scent of the Divine India in Everyday Life: 50 Years of Experience India is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention. The world’s most populous country is making a name for itself geopolitically, is developing more and more as a partner for the German economy and is...

Conspiracy Myths

Michael Blume Conspiracy Myths Their Origin, What They Can Do and How We Can Counter them Was the Covid-19 pandemic orchestrated by Bill Gates so that human beings could have nanochips injected into them with the vaccine? Are kidnapped children being tortured in secret underground factories to...

Everything Is Grace

Eugen Drewermann Everything Is Grace Paths to Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Like no other text in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans highlights the core themes of Christianity: Only when we feel fundamentally entitled to our existence are we capable of doing good. Laws and commandments...

The Meaning of Politics is Freedom

Winfried Kretschmann The Meaning of Politics is Freedom Why Hannah Arendt Gives Us Confidence in Difficult Times Winfried Kretschmann makes no secret of the fact that Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) has long been an inspiration to him. As combative as she was controversial during her lifetime, the...

Pope Leo XIV

Stefan von Kempis Pope Leo XIV Who He Is – How He Thinks – What Awaits Him and Us He is the first American to lead the 1.4 billion Catholics throughout the world: Robert Francis Prevost, born in 1955, was elected in a surprisingly short conclave to succeed Pope Francis and took the name of Leo XIV....

World Religions

World Religions As If He Was Listening Rainer Maria Rilke's Dialogue with the Buddha Karl-Josef Kuschel Further details In the Flow of Things Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht in the Dialogue with Buddha, Lao Tzu and Zen Karl-Josef Kuschel Further details »That We Are All Children of Abraham…«...

In the Flow of Things

Karl-Josef Kuschel In the Flow of Things Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht in the Dialogue with Buddha, Lao Tzu and Zen »Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. And yet, for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; it has no equal« (Tao Te Ching). Hermann Hesse and...

»That We Are All Children of Abraham…«

Karl-Josef Kuschel »That We Are All Children of Abraham…« Helmut Schmidt Meets Anwar as-Sadat: A Religious Conversation on the Nile Two world-renowned statesmen, Helmut Schmidt and Anwar as-Sadat, meet in December 1977. The Egyptian President had made a significant gesture of peace: his trip to...

Elie Wiesel - A Life Against Forgetting

Reinhold Boschki Elie Wiesel - A Life Against Forgetting Memories of a Companion Elie Wiesel, born ninety years ago, is one of the most defining figures of the 20th century. Born as the son of a devout Jewish grocer in the Carpathians (Hungary at that time), he was deported to Auschwitz at the age...

God’s Presence in Judaism and Christianity: A Conversation

Henry G. Brandt / Walter Kardinal Kasper / Jörg Bremer God’s Presence in Judaism and Christianity: A Conversation Edited by Jörg Bremer The conversation between two witnesses of the century: Walter Kasper, German theologian and cardinal, spent many years as the head of the Vatican Commission of the...