11 June 2015, The Tablet

The wisdom of crowds


 
Every two years senior politicians and international statesmen lead Bible study groups and discuss gospel values in packed arenas. Could it only happen in Germany? All the roads are clogged with traffic, the yellow trams are packed, there are brass bands on every other corner and the elegant squares are full of young people wrapped in red scarves. This can only mean one thing: it’s Kirchentag. More than 100,000 delegates, young and old, piled into the city of Stuttgart last week for the church-run festival where the headline-grabbers included German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. The theme for this year’s Kirchentag – “That we may become wise” (from Psalm 90:12, which begins “Teach us to number our days”) &nd
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