What fraternity for our century?

Let’s reinvent the “we”. What fraternity for our century?, it is a crossing of the troubled waters of the fraternal experience. Welcoming others in their integrity, even those who are most distant from us, considering them as my brother or sister, is to return to the very essence of our humanity. Considering the challenges of our century, what place does fraternity have and how can we live it?

As you browse these pages, discover an imperfect but resilient fraternity, like those who work there.

Full of nuances, 3 gazes meet, 3 voices are heard to explore the fertility of ancient texts. This small format deploys a plural reading. Each of the authors takes us in turn to encounter the biblical text, avenues for updating and a personal journey.

AUTHORS :

Isabelle Grellier-Bonnal was professor of practical theology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg. Convinced that the Bible has a thousand treasures to offer everyone, believer or not, she strives to bring it into dialogue with everyday life. Particularly interested in the relationship of support, personal or social, she has published, among other things, Social Action and Recognition. For a diaconal theology (Oberlin, 2003).

Bruno Lachnitt experienced a somewhat linear path in his youth: experience of monastic life at 18, entry into the seminary, commitment to volunteering, then nine years spent with the Jesuits... before leaving religious life and getting married . Ordained deacon in 2006 for the diocese of Lyon, he was called in 2013 to become a prison chaplain. For two years he has been national chaplain for the Catholic faith.

Pierre Servent is a doctor in History, political journalist for La Croix and Le Monde, advisor to the Ministry of Defense, operational reserve colonel... Pierre Servent has more than one ace in his game. Author of around twenty books for for which he has received several awards, speaker and consultant for different television channels (TF1, LCI), he is a specialist in questions of military strategy and conflict analysis.