Talks

Here is a collection of “talks” I have held or love to hold whenever there is somebody who listens.

The grouping is quite chaotic at the moment. I am working on it.

Introductions

• Everybody is faithful
• Did Jesus die for my sins?
• Heaven is a wonderful place
• The Bible is not clear for most things
• What’s so good about the Good News?
• About controversial questions
• About the cross
• Reality and our image of it
• Personifying reality
• About depression
• About eternal life
• A basic code of conduct for all humans
• The only thing we are on Earth for

The digital era

• Why software should be free
• Facebook versus Wikimedia
• Guide to the Internet
• About home office teams

About faith

• About faith
• The coloured glasses behind our eyes
• Existential questions
• The meaning of life
• Who is “faithful”?
• About faith camps
• What “religion” means
• Jesus started a religious revolution
• About prayer
• About sins
• About miracles
• About confession
• The name of God
• When God is calling you
• About idolatry
• Letters from God
• Slicing reality into chunks

Life itself

• About love
• About sexuality
• About sexual disorders
• About queer people and the Church
• About homosexuality
• About abortion

My favourite planet

• About Greta Thunberg

About politics

“I am puzzled about which Bible people are reading when they suggest that religion and politics don’t mix.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)

• How to save the world
• About democracy
• Don’t let money rule the world
• About law systems
• About the United Nations
• Territories and nations
• Capitalism versus communism
• The many meanings of “liberal”
• The big challenges of humanity
• Res publica – the common wealth
• The greedy giants
• Public corporations
• Get control over private corporations
• About whistleblowing
• About corporations
• About private property
• About privacy
• About leaders
• Prayer for disarmament
• The end of the war in Ukraine

About life

• About names and languages
• Life is a gift
• Mistakes are good
• Becoming useless is your most important task
• When your partner doesn’t agree that he is wrong
• About trust
• About fundamentalism
• The Liar King Award
• About traditions
• About prudence

About the Church

• Credo
• A beginner’s guide to Christianity
• About Catholics
• About Christian values
• About the bible
• About the word “Gospel”
• About the Kingdom of God
• The scaring parts of the Bible
• About atonement
• Saviour
• About spreading the Gospel
• Why do Christians say that Jesus is God?
• The future of Christianity
• About religious hypertrophies
• The Church is not a truth provider
• Does God forgive our sins before we confess them?
• About the Eucharist

• State religion
• About individualism
• About nature and beyond
• Must the Church become more transparent?
• Seeing humans as computers
• To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

Unclassified

• About science
• My style guide
• Stop believing that you know God
• An exercise in listening
• About being bold
• About holiness
• Let’s remove grammatical gender from our language
• About friends
• Saving the world: a human game
• Repent and believe in the gospel
• About moral teaching
• Dangerous rights in wrong hand
• Identity as a value
• The noisy hornbill and the ladybird
• Tell me the Gospel in 60 seconds
• Are you lucky?
• Tertium non datur
• God alone deserves veneration
• About being good
• About synodal teamwork
• About narcissism
• How to be happy
• Imagine Jesus watching you
• Not all Christians are good
• Agile versus Waterfall
• Storing knowledge sustainably
• Giving up a discussion
• Indicator questions
• Shaking the dust off your feet
• I trust in reality
• Season Of Creation