The blog of Village Mosaïque, an inclusive church in the heart of Lausanne, offers articles to nourish faith, explore open Christian spirituality and discover the life of our welcoming community. You’ll find biblical reflections, testimonials from members, and practical advice for living out your faith on a daily basis.
Our blog also addresses biblical themes, contemporary spiritual issues and social topics such as diversity, inclusion and solidarity. The aim is to create a space of inspiration for all those who seek to live an authentic, open and incarnated spirituality in today’s world.
When the world seems to be falling apart Today, as in the past, as we look at the world, we sometimes feel drawn into a whirlpool, unable to extract ourselves or move. Messages and news of war, atrocities and violence, not just far away, but all around us. It’s enough
A church in the service of justice and compassion “House of Compassion is a thematic church about compassion and the fight for justice. Building further on the commitment of the Brussels Beguinage community of the past decades, we strive together with our partners for more humanity, a hopeful society and
Nature, a path to God and wonder I (Erika) cannot count the number of times that people have told me how close they feel to God when they are in nature. On a purely pragmatic level, spending time in nature does remove us from our daily cares and our “normal”
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Being a peacemaker I have always been struck by the fact that Jesus does not call people to be peacekeepers, but peacemakers. One of the most vivid biblical images of God’s world is the “peaceful kingdom,”
Society is not emerging from religion, but from the religious institution. The thirst for spirituality in the contemporary world Today, the thirst for spirituality is omnipresent and growing, whether among the religious or the secular. Indeed, “man is a metaphysical animal”, said the philosopher Schopenhauer, and André Comte-Sponville, a writer
I have long dreamt of a church to which I would be proud to invite my interfaith and non-religious friends. A new theological look at inclusion in the Church How many of us call ourselves spiritual but not religious? How many of us believe in the possibility of transformation, the
