We recently returned from a family trip to India – a trip meant mainly to introduce our kids to the place their parents had called home for four years – and ended up with much more than we bargained for. Instead of just a trip down memory lane, we found ourselves in the middle of
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And The Winner Is….
This year, December brought us not only the Advent season but also the World Cup season. For our family, this means our usually quite tight TV restrictions fly out the window and we all are glued to the screen, cheering and discussing and generally acting as if we were all soccer pros. And no, I wasn’t sitting there looking for inspiration for a blog post…
Dear God, You Know I’m Right
Keywords: Elections – partiality- prayer – writing
It’s election day in the U.S. And yes, I will write about the election in this post, but not to endorse a candidate (which might be a tad late by now…). Instead, I’ll share a very personal nail biter and how it compares, to me, to the emotions of election night…
Judge Not…
Keywords: Judgement – unconditional love – USA – Switzerland
A few months ago, I wrote a post called “A Whole New World” about some of the problems I perceive with the position of the Church in the American society. These thoughts portray a difficult side of my current home country. But that’s not all there is to this multi-faceted place, and today I’m reflecting on one of its positive sides: the encouragement and inspiration I have drawn from America that I might not have learned anywhere else…
Unexpected
Keywords: LBGTQ – compassion – vulnerability – Schitts Creek – Dan Levy – Jeff Chu
I’ve struggled with prejudices most of my life. One of them is the conviction that a certain kind of humor is unworthy of my time and an affront to my high standards of interaction with people. So, when my girlfriend urged me to watch a sitcom she had recently discovered, I was more than skeptical. But because I know her to be a woman with deep feelings, with morals and compassion and meaningful relationships, I gave it a try. To my defense, let’s just say, the title didn’t help…
A Whole New World
Keywords: Culturally informed faith – Swiss Christianity – American Evangelicalism
One of the first things I noticed when moving to the U.S. fifteen years ago was how different this country’s relationship to Christianity is from the one I had experienced back in Switzerland. And since few things are healthier for our faith than to realize that not everybody does and sees things the way we do, I set out to explore those differences…
