From Cologne to Gainesville

March 8, 2012 • Heike Boecken

People ask me how a German woman ends up at a small church in Florida. The answer takes a while to tell. But it begins, as most things in my life do, with a crisis of faith — and a God who refused to let me go.

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What Europe Taught Me About Faith

January 14, 2012 • Heike Boecken

I grew up in a continent where Christianity is dying — not from persecution, but from comfort. Europe taught me what a faith that costs nothing eventually becomes. It becomes nothing.

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On Being a Stranger

December 2, 2011 • Heike Boecken

The Bible calls us strangers and pilgrims in this world. I have lived that literally — as a German in America, as a believer in a secular age. Strangeness, I have learned, is not a problem to be solved. It is a calling to be embraced.

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