Florence Delay, “There is no horse on the road to Damascus” (Seuil): Spiritual Bestiary

Unseated is the epithet we use metaphorically to say that we have fallen, not from our chair, worse, from our horse. The horse of its own certainties which gallops, with blinkers, towards what we take for reality. Saul, a Pharisee from Tarsus, goes on the road to Damascus to continue his work of extermination of … Read more

Road actors analyze what should be done with the bike paths of Bucaramanga

Ahe time that the Bucaramanga Mayor’s Office projects the construction of another 15 kilometers of bike paths, municipal officials are also analyzing how to respond to the adjustments requested by the courts in three corridors of the current bike infrastructure, where according to experts there are various conflicts in terms of mobility . Disadvantages for … Read more

Thailand: an open road to dialogue

25 years after the opening of the Focolare in Chiangmai (Thailand), the interview with Metta Surinkaew, among the first Buddhist members of the Focolare Movement, today a collaborator for interreligious dialogue. “Religions are a variegated quality of plants that bloom continuously, conferring beauty and productivity in a balance and harmony for the whole earth ”. … Read more

Monday poetry: today, “the stubborn road of tears” by Claude Favre

Every week, a look at the poetic news. Today, the disarming and uncompromising poetry of “Those who go through strange lands the strange begging adventures”, the new collection by Claude Favre. “Ripped off the map. But the real names are not on the card. With its “words of hearts cut with a knife”, French poet … Read more

Seven Psalms: NICK CAVE, away from the flames, on his knees towards home, on Leonard Cohen’s road

He’s out 7 Psalms from Nick Cave. That it cannot be reviewed as a music album, because it is not. If anything, we can only delve into his world and try to understand what path he is seeking with insistence and suffering and if he is reaching in his own way, what he accepted before … Read more

Scenarios. Energy, Africa and the road to peace: Descalzi’s vision

Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, at the Festa di Avvenire in Matera On the first day of the Feast of Future in Materain the meeting with the cardinal Mauro Gambettithe bishop Vincenzo Orofino and the director of Future Marco Tarquinio, Claudio Descalzi offered the public gathered in the Lucanian city a profound reading of the … Read more