Post Series: Germany

Johann Sebastian Bach This week we are going to the region of Thuringia in Germany, where we will stop in the town of Eisenach. The old town made of cobblestone streets, half-timbered houses or stone houses is very typical in this part of the world. There are also many churches to visit, such as the Nikolaikirche…

Last week we were in Merano to discover the story of Valentine, the missionary who finished his life there after having had an unsuccessful ministry in Passau.  I finished the stage by saying that even if Valentine’s mission in the Bavarian town seemed to have failed, God redeemed the situation. So today we will visit…

In this episode we will finish this miniseries of five stages in which we have visited some of the places showing how European pagan tribes turned to Christianity. And for the final stage of this series, we will visit Zülpich, a town locatedin the region of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany, nearly 50 km Southeast from…

In the 1930s, the Nazis rose to power in Germany. And yet, two decades later, they had nearly disappeared. What brought such a dramatic change to Germany? Perhaps one of the decisive factors behind the change was the Christian faith of a German statesman called Konrad Adenauer. So, to discover more about this statesman, we…

The Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century was a theological movement which brought a radical transformation in every area of society, first in Northern Europe and later all over the world. One of the main actors of the Reformation was obviously Martin Luther. It is not possible to understand the Protestant Reformation without learning about…