The theological commission of the French-speaking Swiss Free Evangelical churches publishes a regular series of round-table discussions on questions of the day, and its recent editions range across war, nationalism, ecology and the Christian’s relationship to money and reward. The commission, the theological advisory body of the FREE federation, issues the discussions as podcasts, and says the subjects it chooses are generally in step with the questions and concerns people are raising at the time.
Among the titles released in the current run are “Spiritual blinkers”, “Vegetarianism”, “Should I expect a reward from God?”, “The Kingdom of God — now or later?”, “The Christian and war”, “Christian nationalism” and “Ecology”. The federation presented the series on 9 October, describing it as an ongoing effort to bring theological reflection to bear on subjects that congregations and individual believers are already discussing.
One example given is the edition on war, which the commission says works through both theological and practical questions — returning to the commandment against killing in the Decalogue and to the tradition of just-war reasoning, among other aspects of the subject. The episodes can be listened to on the FREE website or downloaded as MP3 files, a format the commission has adopted so that the material can be used in congregations and study groups rather than only heard once.
(Originally published in French. Summary translated by CC / Connexion.)
Source: LaFree — Free Evangelical Churches of French-speaking Switzerland — lafree.ch
