Post Series: France

This week we are going to visit the third biggest city of France, Lyon. The city is located at 150 km South-West from Geneva which we visited during stage two. The river Rhône flows through both cities. But the similarities don’t stop here. While Geneva is known for the Calvinist Reformation of the 16th century,…

The summer holidays are starting. And this is a time for travelling for many Europeans. And since we’ve been going through our European Journey since January, let me suggest that we take a mini-trip within the Journey. During the coming weeks, I propose to visit some of the locations were the Waldensians had an impact…

We continue our mini-trip in the footsteps of the Waldensians in pre-Reformation times. Today, we will again be in France but this time in the Northeastern city of Metz, located in the region of Lorraine. The city lies on the banks of the Moselle river, which flows down to the Rhine in Germany. It is…

We will continue our mini-trip in the footsteps of the Waldensians and study the spread of their work in Europe before the Reformation. For the third stage of this mini-trip, we will again be in France but this time in Strasbourg. This city is the capital of Alsace, a region where French and a Germanic…

In 1945, a war had devastated Europe once again. The continent was now in need of a new direction, but who could provide it? Some Christian politicians believed that a free and prosperous Europe would only be possible if it were rebuilt upon Christian foundations. It was precisely this desire to rebuild Europe on Christian…