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There have always been good fathers and bad fathers. But never before in history has the role of fathers been as undefined as it is today. Hardly anyone who becomes a father is entering the race with a religious, cultural or educational assignment.
It is gratifying that in Germany politicians who neither suck their honey from making other politicians look bad nor pay constant attention to their media image can still be successful.
The Catholic News Service kath.net published a tribute to the late Jean Louis Cardinal Tauran by Thomas Schirrmacher, which we make available for free use by the media now.
On the death of my dear teacher, Georg Huntemann, – especially on ethics and Judaism – my obituary appeared in 2014 in the journal of the Martin Bucer Seminars Glauben und Denken heute in issue 1/2014 together with a classical essay by Huntemann “Eigentum als Schöpfungsordnung Gottes”.
As a young man, I had the rare chance to meet Billy Graham personally. I asked him what he would do differently if he could Iive over again. He replied that before becoming a Christian leader, he would have invested much more time in studying the Bible in depth and being discipled by a respected Bible teacher.
My teacher Heinrich Leonard Cox (1935–2016) died on September 6, 2016, a few weeks after his 81st birthday. Since far too few obituaries have appeared, I would like to remember him once again.
Two days before the National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) 2017 in Washington, the German delegation of MPs and there experts headed from the airport to ‘The Cedars’ in Arlington, where Douglas “Doug” Coe was living. For many years it had been a tradition, that he would speak to the German delegation directly after arrival in Washington Hilton, where the NPB takes place.