The atmosphere in the room was uncomfortable and charged with tension. People weren’t looking at each other, but were watching...
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When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
Midway through a four-week lesson period in a 10th grade trigonometry class, two questions for the assembled students: What grade would you give yourself for your oral participation? Are you putting in an effort right now or are you slacking off?» Everyone comments and I note the self-assessment. A week...
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Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
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‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two eyes amongst flowing people. A woman with red painted fingernails clutches her friend’s shoulder in a powerful gesture. A gray-blue vagrant looks for refundable goods in the trash can and...
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During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
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The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in...
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«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of metal.» (Nikolas Berdyaev, ‹Humanity and Technology›). Mechanics obeys the cold laws of external causality. If the world, if world history were pure mechanics, there would be no wiggle room, and...
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According to Friedrich Glasl, the escalation in the event of conflict goes downwards, because «the path of escalation leads with...
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Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
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