The future lies in front of our lens – and in our hands.
Without prejudice but not without will
The project “church future” envisages a series of short Videos. Their short stories focus on the future of the church but without passing judgment. The changes and their far-reaching consequences should not be played down, but horror scenarios are not going to be postulated either. The only scope of the videos is to stimulate discussion of Christianity’s future. A debate should be held also outside the church walls. The webvideo together with the social media platforms might be a suitable form to make this topic public.
Future is what happens, when nothing else happens.
This saying makes clear, that predicting future is nothing else as projecting the trends of today into tomorrow. The feeling of the author of this project is, that these trends will become even more predominant. But this cannot be used as an excuse for passivity. The future of the church lies to a large extent in the hands of the Christians. And it lies totally in the hands of their Lord.
The church at the end of its wits? It’s not that bad.
We envisage to focus on two main topics. One is the disappearance of the traditional forms of devotion and of the church buildings. On the other hand we would like to show new forms of christian life emerging out of creative initiative und faith. How is the church going to look like, if it is no longer like today. You can discuss and disagree about that. Or you can think with phantasy of future shapes of the church. Phantasy is what you need in order to envisage the future.
Would you like to help out?
Please contact us to stay informed about new films or to help work on a particular project. Discussions about the topic of the films may take place in the region of Basel, Switzerland. We inform you about the planed meetings.
Programmierung der dynamischen Uhr von Homepage-Webhilfe, Benjamin Jung, www.homepage-webhilfe.de; Design Leszek Ruszkowski