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We had a painting class at Munkevængets skole with Helle Noer. 30 participants- children and adults showed up. Products of the course are now exhibited in the hallway of Simon Peters Church.

INVITATION TO LECTURE EVENING

With great joy we would like to invite you to a lecture evening by a prolific professor from Canada, Gordon Slethaug. He will be presenting his book, "The Road in American Culture", which partly deals on the historical journey of a people to a developed frontier,  a concept very much popularized  in literature and films. Gordon teaches at IBC in Kolding. Come to this inspiring hour on Wednesday, the 18th of May,  at 7 p.m. in Simon Peters Church, Islandsvej 12, Kolding.

Let the author speak with the following lines below: 

"The Road in American Culture” 

"In 1957, Jack Kerouac published a novel called On the Road, which became immensely popular in North America and across the globe.  In this book, the main character Sal Paradise and his buddies drove across the US, especially on Route 66, searching for themselves and America.  In this way the book spoke to a new generation of post-World War II young people who felt the urge to get in a car and leave home and family to experience the open spaces, small towns, and cities of the West and thus reinvent themselves.  This was the book that defined “the road” for the next 60 years, though the 1970’s film Easy Rider complicated that view with its more strongly stated counter-cultural view of the US.

However, America had been in love with the idea of travel from its founding, but Walt Whitman was the first to codify this impulse in an 1856 poem called “Song of the Open Road,” which tied in with the development of the American frontier and the so-called Manifest Destiny that saw America’s future as inextricably tied to the entire development of North America.

This presentation will focus on the development of the concept of the road in selected examples of literature beginning with Whitman and extending to contemporary American film."     by  Gordon Slethaug

Life After Death, a  Subject of Dialogue between a Buddhist and a Christian

A religious dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism took place yesterday, the 13th of April, at Munkensdam Gymnasium.  Sharing the point of view from Buddhism in the light of  of his own personal experiences as a Buddhist  and as Gymnasium teacher in sciences was Lars Moeslund from Horsens. While on the other hand,  Karen Marianne Kristensen, a parish priest in Djursland,  spoke for the side of Christianity, sharing personal insights gleaned from her  journeys to Buddhist and Christian monasteries. Both share the common tenets in these two religions and their differences. More details on the content will be posted here later.

Leading the dialogue was our Bishop Niels Henrik Arendt. The chairman of the cross-cultural committee, Solveig Sørensen,  opened and ended  the dialogue meeting. There were 85 young and adults who graced the occasion. There was singing. There was time for tea and coffee and also time for the audience to raise their questions. Marianne from the committee informed the body about the next religious dialogue as arranged by the cross-cultural committee which is going to take place in September. 

Here you can read the newsletter publication of Cross-cultural ministry in Kolding Deanery which is in English language.

Here you can download the first issue: