Cross Border Faith

I continued to live after the haunted forest. However, there is one more thing I need to survive before going back home. This is my final quest in the conquest of Central Europe during Erasmus. It will include cities such as Karlsruhe , Constance , Munich , Prague and Berlin . Megalomaniac? Yes. The travel begins today on Thursday night towards the first destiny. This is the longest road that will finally precede my homecoming. Pray for my existence. And you are very welcomed to join in! Karlsruhe das Fest So the first strike target was Karlsruhe and visiting my friend Michaela in her hometown. The same person that used to greet me at the Frankfurt airport in the very beginning of all this. It is crazy to think how all the time between these two meetings has gone by so quickly and unexpectedly! A feeling of certain nostalgia was definitely present. I took a Flixbus to Karlsruhe not from Göttingen but Kassel. Part of the reason I did this, was because it was a little cheaper...

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...

My life just took a big swing. And lucky enough, for the better. I went for an exchange period to Germany, to study theology (and life) for a total of five months here in Georg-August-University of Göttingen, starting today 1st of March. This is a huge deal for me, of course, because - believe it, or not - it is the first time I have ever crossed the borders of my, oh so lovely and, oh so sweet homeland of Finland. So it's about damn time to get away and do something different for a change! Crossing the border at some time during the Helsinki-Frankfurt flight. The topic "Breaking Borders" also happens to carry a double meaning. As a matter of fact, the whole theme of this blog carries a double meaning. It's not just about me breaking the physical borders of some country. It's a lot more about breaking the spiritual boundaries of culture, religion and identity - crossing the borders of faith, so to speak, as well as religion and culture to find out what rea...