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Utopia was the daughter of love and freedom. She was a beautiful child, gentle and strong at the same time....
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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...
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...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
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I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
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According to Friedrich Glasl, the escalation in the event of conflict goes downwards, because «the path of escalation leads with a certain compelling force to regions that call for great subhuman energies, but which in the long run elude human control and domination». Glasl observes that the parties to the...
It is the developing human being in every human being, and what a teacher does is not put anything in,...
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I believe ‹positive peace› has two principles. One is ‹equality› or more precisely cooperation with mutual and equal benefit. Please...
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Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel and Alsace. After the first impressive tour around the Goetheanum, unknown to him and as a non-anthroposophist, my companion asked friends the unsuspecting question: But where is the chapel, the...
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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The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in...
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