PThU News
- Moral Compass Project to be expandedThe Moral Compass Project (MCP) is being expanded with four new research projects. This new funding will firstly enable the MCP's major questions to be investigated in very concrete areas of life where the good living together must be given shape. Secondly, interdisciplinary research is incorporated in the project with studies into ancient Jewish and early Christian sources. How can the wealth of values from these sources be unlocked for moral reflection and practice in the present day?
- “Christians in Spain hold up a mirror to us”How can churches make themselves more visible in society? That question led Marten van den Toren-Liefting to a Pentecostal church in Spain in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. There, he conducted research into how these churches engage with society through their faith. On February 24, he defended his PhD thesis on this research.
- "Prayer is not mine, and it does not depend on me"Researcher Ilonka Terlouw hasn’t always been a prayer warrior, she says. But she has experienced the power of prayer in her life—perhaps most profoundly when she left the ‘talking to God’ to others. “That was when I realised just how much prayer is also about connection with one another.” Fascinated by the way prayer connects us to God and to each other, she recently began a study into the value of prayer.
