building a community of grace
Homily - Sunday the 9th of November 2025 - Remembrance Sunday Reading: Job 19:23-27 On this Remembrance Sunday, as we recall the end of the First World War, we are invited to pause and remember — to remember the pain, the agony, the displacement, and the terrible violence that war has carved into the heart of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last year I received a few posts on social media of a guy named James Partridge, a music teacher. What started out as a family in-joke really took off for him during the COVID-19 lockdown. While teaching online, a friend suggested he try TikTok, and... Continue Reading →
A Pastoral Letter based on Deuteronomy 26:5–10 Dearly Beloved in Christ, At the heart of sensible and sensitive Christian living lies a spirit of remembrance and humility. During the harvest thanksgiving, the Israelites were commanded to make a confession before God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” (Deuteronomy 26:5). This was no mere ritual of history—it was... Continue Reading →
--- 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 →
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