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A few days into our trip, on January 25th, the sun was high in the sky. It was a beautiful and warm day. We were in Cape Town with our group and had visited Robben Island and enjoyed a wine tasting at Groot Constantia earlier in the day. Now we had some free time, and […]

During our stay in South Africa, we had the opportunity to experience a great variety of places and meet people with different expertise and backgrounds. When asked to write a short blog post about one of our experiences, I found it difficult to choose just one from all that we encountered. However, the one I […]

Throughout my trip to South Africa, I had many moments where I was surprised or impressed. The first day when we arrived in Cape Town, half of the group decided to visit the Kristenbosch National Botanical Garden. Kristenbosch is one of the largest botanical gardens in the world with over 7,000 different plants and flowers. […]

The course “Abraham goes global” gave me a unique opportunity to experience how different communities on opposite sides of the globe worship God and cultivate their faith. The discussions, both the ones included in the program and the informal ones, gave me a deeper understanding of what interfaith dialogue is or what it could be […]

A workshop Rethinking the holy materiality: bones and other “stuff”, with and without reliquaries (the Middles Ages and Beyond) September 10–11, 2025 Venue: University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Call for Papers While much has been published on relics, their understanding remains restricted and inflexible because of the prevalent definitions of the […]

A seminar with Andriy Fert ”Churches and the War-Time ’Spiritual Decolonization’ in Ukraine” that takes place online, 21 January at 9:30am CET (10.30 EET/Finnish time). The meeting will be chaired by Zuzanna Bogumił.   Please register in order to participate https://shorturl.at/1Ilwy Abstract: The colonial nature of the subordination of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the Patriarch of Moscow came to the fore […]

To begin with, I want to thank you all for the good work done together, and the beautiful sense of community we have experienced through this year 2024. When one plants a fruit tree a lot of work is required in the beginning even if the outcome is uncertain. You dig a hole, plant the […]

Need time to finalize a book manuscript? Research stint at the Polin Institute for theological research within Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Polin Institute is a growing international center of theological research in Finland. We announce two research stints of maximum six months between the beginning of September 2025 and the end of February 2026 […]