Cross Border Faith

Last week on Wednesday my family came to visit me in Göttingen and stayed for almost a week. Now, if it already was a surreal feeling for me to land here in Germany in the first place, it definitely was the case to see my family here as well. We spent a total of five full days together in the city vicinity and I was more than happy to receive them and show them a bit around as the local guide. Also, it was another cross border action for us this time as a family unit, since we have never made a trip abroad together as a whole family before. Went to hike up top to Burg Plesse with my brother. We did a wonderful family hike to the Bismarckturm in the Göttingen forest. I determined that this would be a great opportunity to write down some of my quick thoughts about the importance of family in the light of theological ethics and my own life experience. As the ground philosophy of my theology and understanding of life, once again I seek for a narrative perspective in t...

With all the time and money I've spent here on traveling and socializing during my exchange, some people have developed (unnecessary) concerns about the time that's left for my studies. However, I can assure you that life here in Göttingen has treated me better than ever so far, and it holds true even in terms of my studying. Everything has been so well lined up here that I've had time for (almost) everything. Besides, life is really the most important subject that you can study. And for me, theology only offers the best window to structure and interpret all the different aspects of life. Here in Georg-August-University of Göttingen , I'm taking some classes of intercultural theology that are taught in English. It contains a lot of discussions about religious and intercultural dialogue and ecumenism, so the classes cover a lot of those topics that this blog is fundamentally about. A couple of weeks ago we had an interesting conversation in the class about Christ...