Read a biography this summer
One of my life principles are: competent people are competent also at getting rest and recharging. To be constantly busy does not mean we are productive. It’s just being busy, […]
Author Archives: René Breuel
Why it is not wrong to kill chickens
Is it ever right to kill a chicken? Or a dog, or a human being? If not, who says so? God, or our conscience, or plain reason, or utilitarian consequences? […]
Don’t Do Stupid Stuff
Some time ago, back when Barack Obama was still president, I read that one of the phrases that guided the workings of his White House was “don’t do stupid stuff”. […]
Empathy
In a Hundred Days Between Sky and Sea, Amyr Kink narrates his grand voyage across the South Atlantic. He rowed from Africa to the Brazilian coast on a small boat, without […]
Screenwriting and the struggles of life
In the past year one of my greatest joys has been to write a movie screenplay. It had never crossed my mind that I would ever write one. But doing […]
The Gospel of Judas: What it says, why it’s not credible
When talking about Christianity and its historical origins with people, I have been asked by many: what about the gospels not included in the Bible? Why were they not chosen? […]
Graceful Writing
In a lecture at Harvard University, 1993’s Nobel Prize in literature recipient Toni Morrison once explored the theme of good and evil in recent literature. Morrison narrated her interest in […]
A Joke in Your Face
What are faces composed of? Skin and muscles? Sentiments? The long evolving cycle of events mirrored on our eyes and smile? I thought about these questions when Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The […]
Religion and Violence
Religion can breed both violence and peace – the same religion, that is. I found this curious thesis reading recently Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith. For Volf, a Croatian theologian […]
A Trumpian Europe
How to react to the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency? In many European countries, with satire and laughter. It started when a Dutch comedian prosed to amend Trump’s […]
