Etienne Vermeersch trad als jonge man in bij de jezuïeten en liet de kerk achter met een godsbeeld dat geen ruimte liet voor zijn eigen scherpste vragen. Slavernij in de heilige teksten en het probleem van het kwaad blijven binnen dat godsbeeld onoplosbaar. Het herstelde evangelie vertrekt van andere uitgangspunten: keuzevrijheid die even oud is als God, en tegenstelling als voorwaarde voor een wereld waarin groei en liefde mogelijk zijn.
Wetenschap meet, maar waardeert niet – en toch vlucht het abortusdebat vaak in feiten en meerderheden in plaats van in morele vragen. Geloof hoort wél aan tafel, mits het spreekt met redenen en niet met gezag. Alleen zo kunnen we de diepste vraag onder ogen zien: wat is een mens waard?
Rond euthanasie vallen telkens dezelfde twee woorden: moedig en verstandig. Maar wie zegt dat de moed altijd aan die kant van de tafel ligt? Ik pleit er voor om ook wie blijft vechten en blijft leven moedig te durven noemen, zonder iemand anders in een hoekje te plaatsen.
Julien De Wit schreef een intelligent boek over veerkracht en heruitvinding in crisistijd. Het klopt bijna. Maar er ontbreekt iets essentieels — en dat gemis is precies de blinde vlek van onze tijd.
Apostel Gerrit W. Gong wijdt een uitgebreide video aan AI, met heldere waarschuwingen over wat technologie nooit kan vervangen: het gebed, de groei door inspanning, de echte vriendschap, de stilte in de natuur. Ik vind dat je moet aandacht besteden aan de driehoek tussen God, de ander en jezelf waar geen algoritme mag tussen komen.
Peter steps out of the boat, walks on water, and sinks. The classic lesson says: make sure your faith is stronger. But what if that's not the point of the story at all? Christ knew beforehand that Peter would sink — and immediately stretched out his hand. No reproach, no delay. That changes everything about how we look at this story, and how we look at ourselves in a time when many are facing overwhelming challenges.
A second study shows that AI not only remains silent about religion but actively steers it. At the same time, Pope Leo XIV and an apostle of my own church warn against the same blind spot. My proposal: literally bring faith traditions to the table of those who build AI.
A new study tested twenty-seven major AI models on everyday moral questions and found that religion is hardly mentioned, even where half of people would expect it to be. The pattern is universal: from Claude to ChatGPT, they all treat faith as a philosophical curiosity rather than a practical framework. No hostility — but a silent choice with consequences for the worldview that AI returns to us.
How can you pray? Don't be disappointed if it doesn't always work. The purpose of prayer is the result of what it does to you.
The nerd who wanted nothing to do with God: a boy who read encyclopedias cover to cover, imagined chickens away from chicken coops, and neatly parked God in the category of dogmas. Until a school trip to Italy brought him to Assisi — and everything changed.
Religious symbols in public spaces do not have to divide us — they can be the beginning of a true encounter. A strong conviction does not make you narrower, but broader.
When we serve our fellow human being, we serve God, and we step together under the yoke of Christ, which makes the burden light because He carries it with us. The world seems too big to help, but the gospel never works in wholesale, only in retail, person by person, heart by heart. One small gesture for that one person in front of you might just be the miracle he prayed for this morning.
Niels De Nutte concludes in De Morgen that 689 adult baptisms do not constitute a religious revival. His figures are correct, his conclusion is not. Whoever chooses faith today, chooses against the wind — and that makes that choice qualitatively different from forty years ago. 7,000 requested Jesus figurines, a neighborhood that almost doubles, growing smaller churches: these are signals under the radar of macro statistics. Measuring movement is not the same as measuring direction.
The Trinity is not literally in the Bible — it was formulated in 325 AD by philosophers who used Greek philosophy to summarize biblical data. We believe that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct beings, and that conviction is not despite the Scriptures but thanks to a literal reading of them. And who God truly is — that is a question too important to leave to fourth-century philosophers.
Time is the only currency you can never earn back. Every time you give someone your attention, bring a pot of soup, or stay when everyone else leaves, you literally give away a piece of your life. Easter poses the question we prefer to avoid: for whom do you die today?
Life is sometimes just messy. We all just do something, searching for meaning and connection. That is Ineke Plasschaert's honest approach for her new video series 'Onder Ons'. I considered it a privilege to talk with her for the very first episode.
Three radio presenters smash religious statues to pieces and don't see the problem — until a journalist asks one simple question. An honest look at why Christians in Flanders no longer guard their own boundaries, and what happens if you let that slide for too long. With a plea for the healthy middle: strong enough to laugh, but clear enough to say what you stand for.
Man Bites Dog came to find out where everyone gets their Jesus figurines from and what the reason is why we are so active in our faith.
Millions of people worldwide are helped by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — from school meals in Haiti to emergency aid after floods in Wallonia. This help is provided quietly, without fuss, and reaches everyone who needs it, regardless of origin or belief. The Caring for Those in Need 2025 Report provides figures for once on what normally remains unseen.
The Atonement of Christ is the greatest miracle in history — greater than Christmas, deeper than we often realize. We celebrate Easter as if it were a side note, while it is the feast that changes everything. What happened on Golgotha was out of pure love, and that love still applies today — for you.
Reasonably Believing: believing in a secular world 
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