Education for Nonviolence describes how we can actually do something about our increasingly violent world. Few in the media draw a clear connection between the all-too-frequent tragedies we hear and read about in the news each day and the way as parents and teachers we raise and educate our children.
Jon Madsen's translation seeks a way between the strictly literal, which might appear dry and archaic, and contemporary idiom, which risks trivializing. He was inspired both by the sacramental language used in his work as a priest and by Emil Bock's translation of the Gospels into German. Madsen, like Bock, is convinced that the living wisdom of ......
'To see Christ in Jesus and Jesus in Christ is an incomparable joy. Each single saying and each single word finds its place in the heights on the way from Jesus to Christ, on the way from Christ to Jesus.' - Friedrich Rittelmeyer How can we meet the real Jesus today? Friedrich Rittelmeyer (1872-1938) - a well-known Protestant preacher of his day ......
In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical
incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place
before ‘a part’ of the third millennium had passed, and was
inevitable – but it was also necessary that people were aware
of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be
destroyed if the world were to fall completely to ......
Form Drawing Inspiration for Steiner-Waldorf Teachers
Henrik Thaulow is a class teacher and art and crafts teacher in Waldorf Schools, and a lecturer at the Steiner College in Oslo. He trained at the Granum Painting School in Oslo and the Goetheanist Study Centre in Vienna.
Experienced maths teacher and consultant Jamie York believes that a love of learning comes through the teacher, so his books are committed to supporting teachers in developing their classroom skills and to fostering a love of maths in their students.
Unlike conventional maths textbooks, his books are not full of ......
Growing old is a constant battle... One has the experience of being squeezed out of one's bodily home, and one sets out to protect oneself against it, and holds on to what one can.... But when we make an effort to grow old in the right way, which means transforming what is earthly into what is spiritual, we are working at the ......
Spiritual-Scientific Enquiries into the Nature of the Human Being
Today, illness is almost universally regarded as either a nuisance or a grave misfortune. In contrast to this conventional thinking, Rudolf Steiner places the suffering caused by disease in a broad vista that includes an understanding of karma and personal metamorphosis. Illness comes to expression in the physical body, but mostly does not ......
''The two streams in the human being combine to produce what is commonly known as a person's temperament. Our inner self and our inherited traits co-mingle in it. Temperament is an intermediary between what connects us to an ancestral line and what we bring with us...Temperament strikes a balance between the eternal and the ephemeral...'' From ......