building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- One of the most confusing things I encountered 40 years ago when I moved to Germany were all the different church holidays. The big ones , Christmas and Easter I knew and some others like Ascension and Pentecost were easy to understand. The two holidays... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The feeling of being home versus being a visitor. Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like “I am home, i am where i belong”. The other day, in my Religion Course, the question “what does the church mean to me?” was... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In recent days, when I was discouraged about possibly losing a job which I love, my circumstances were put into perspective in the form of a visit from a family friend from Jerusalem. This Israeli medical doctor updated us about all the collective trauma going... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In my youth group at the Protestant church in Waldkirch, we looked at this book and read several stories from it: ICONS – Heroes of Faith from the Bible and Today, published by Herder. It mainly deals with lesser-known stories but also includes some better-known... Continue Reading →
At our ACF one-day art workshop Ich, Du, Wir – I, You, and We, we were invited on a journey of creation and connection. Each of us began with a simple lump of clay, asked to shape a living being with which we most identified. This first step revealed something profound: identity is the starting point... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Now that I am retired, I am often away traveling. To visit our son and his family in Cologne, to travel to the US, on holiday. Recently I was en route to the US for the wedding of a cousin (first wedding...at 74!). My trip... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “God is spirit, and those that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24) Many years ago, I heard this verse chanted in a recording of an Ash Wednesday Evensong. Twelve years later, in 2006, I almost died in a taxi accident... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 14th September 2025 - Blessing for the New Academic Year Reading: Luke 15.8-10 Rooting for the Underdog Who doesn't like the thought of rooting for the underdog, right? I used to work at a restaurant in Austria where we as staff run our own little betting shop for the 2004 men's... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- This past season has been one of the hardest of my life. My closest person (my father, or as I call him, my Baba yes with a B and not P) recently went through heart surgery. By God’s mercy, he came through it and is... Continue Reading →
Isaiah 25:1-10 “God is not ashamed of human lowliness but enters into it. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.” These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer reveals the very nature of God’s grace that is the source of greatest strength to the weak and... Continue Reading →
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