Stephen G Brown
@stephengbr.bsky.social
Today is the 96th birthday of Heino Falcke, one of the most important theologians in East Germany who played an important role in @oikoumene on Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, and in change in GDR itself. (Photo Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Today is the 96th birthday of Heino Falcke, one of the most important theologians in East Germany who played an important role in @oikoumene on Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, and in change in GDR itself. (Photo Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
On 5 June in Paris I will be presenting my research on the involvement of the young Paul Ricoeur in the international ecumenical movement at a Study Day organised by the FondsRicoeur and IRSE Geneva at the IPT
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April 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On 5 June in Paris I will be presenting my research on the involvement of the young Paul Ricoeur in the international ecumenical movement at a Study Day organised by the FondsRicoeur and IRSE Geneva at the IPT
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The first theological book I was given - by my sister for my 17th birthday - and it's accompanied me since
April 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The first theological book I was given - by my sister for my 17th birthday - and it's accompanied me since
Televised service today from the former Flossenbürg concentration camp where 80 years ago on 9 April 1945 Bonhoeffer was executed in the closing days of WW2
April 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Televised service today from the former Flossenbürg concentration camp where 80 years ago on 9 April 1945 Bonhoeffer was executed in the closing days of WW2
Speaking at the Protestant church in Ferney Voltaire tonight on how their pastor in the 1920s Pierre Maury and @Oikoumene gen sec Visser 't Hooft helped catalyse ecumenical thinking in France and Internationally in the 1930s against the background of Karl Barth's thought
April 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Speaking at the Protestant church in Ferney Voltaire tonight on how their pastor in the 1920s Pierre Maury and @Oikoumene gen sec Visser 't Hooft helped catalyse ecumenical thinking in France and Internationally in the 1930s against the background of Karl Barth's thought
@emilyherring.bsky.social just discovered that at Luxembourg, 50.metres from where you did your presentation on Henri Betgson book there is a branch of the La Durée patisserie
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@emilyherring.bsky.social just discovered that at Luxembourg, 50.metres from where you did your presentation on Henri Betgson book there is a branch of the La Durée patisserie
At the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey next to Lake Geneva
March 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
At the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey next to Lake Geneva
Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos. begins with a bus ride in East Berlin - I'm pretty sure it must be the BVB 57 (a bus I used to take from @humboldtuni.bsky.social to Friedenstrasse)
March 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos. begins with a bus ride in East Berlin - I'm pretty sure it must be the BVB 57 (a bus I used to take from @humboldtuni.bsky.social to Friedenstrasse)
Great evening at the Red Wheelbarrow bookshop with @emilyherring.bsky.social presenting and reading from her new book on Henri Bergson - Herald of a Restless World
February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Great evening at the Red Wheelbarrow bookshop with @emilyherring.bsky.social presenting and reading from her new book on Henri Bergson - Herald of a Restless World
Inspired by @timhayward.bsky.social's column in the FT but living in France I had to follow @jayrayner1.bsky.social's recipe for a Steak Bake - delicious but not exactly fast food thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/jay-...
January 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Inspired by @timhayward.bsky.social's column in the FT but living in France I had to follow @jayrayner1.bsky.social's recipe for a Steak Bake - delicious but not exactly fast food thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/jay-...
Epiphany Sunday - King for a day
January 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Epiphany Sunday - King for a day
Happy New Year Paris
December 31, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Happy New Year Paris
Joyeux Noël/ Frohe Weihnachten/ Happy Christmas (Church of the Four Evangelists, Pankow)
December 24, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Joyeux Noël/ Frohe Weihnachten/ Happy Christmas (Church of the Four Evangelists, Pankow)
"Dona nobis pacem": Gedenkgottesdienst in Magdeburg Bilder:MDR
December 21, 2024 at 6:52 PM
"Dona nobis pacem": Gedenkgottesdienst in Magdeburg Bilder:MDR
Returning to France over the Rhine from Germany quite a different experience in a local train than in the opposite direction on the first direct ICE from Paris to Berlin @EuropeByRail
December 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Returning to France over the Rhine from Germany quite a different experience in a local train than in the opposite direction on the first direct ICE from Paris to Berlin @EuropeByRail
At Jena West Station - memorial to Jews, Sinti and Roma deported from here by the National Socialists to concentration camps
December 21, 2024 at 7:37 AM
At Jena West Station - memorial to Jews, Sinti and Roma deported from here by the National Socialists to concentration camps
Last views of Berlin
December 20, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Last views of Berlin
Lead us not into temptation
December 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Lead us not into temptation
This house was one in a different country - and at the pavement level thd entrance to the U-Bahn that was sealed up during the division of Berlin with the trains below running through without stopping
December 17, 2024 at 1:39 PM
This house was one in a different country - and at the pavement level thd entrance to the U-Bahn that was sealed up during the division of Berlin with the trains below running through without stopping
Arrived Berlin 5 minutes early
December 16, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Arrived Berlin 5 minutes early
Still, ironic to be on the first regular train from Paris to Berlin - the fruit of a Macron-Scholz summit- when the Franco-German locomotive in Europe is stuttering and neither country has a stable government
December 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Still, ironic to be on the first regular train from Paris to Berlin - the fruit of a Macron-Scholz summit- when the Franco-German locomotive in Europe is stuttering and neither country has a stable government
Crossing the Rhine on the first Paris-Berlin train seems a good opportunity for a sparkling wine (even if not Prosecco and not Sekt or Champagne) to remember how 80 years ago these two countries had been at war on and off for almost 75 years and Alsace taken back and forth
December 16, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Crossing the Rhine on the first Paris-Berlin train seems a good opportunity for a sparkling wine (even if not Prosecco and not Sekt or Champagne) to remember how 80 years ago these two countries had been at war on and off for almost 75 years and Alsace taken back and forth