Lay people (s)peak

This book is the result of an experiment. Six people, one woman and five men, are led by the disappearance of their official church to do something together that they had no idea of ​​ten years ago: to express in public their deepest convictions about some fundamental questions: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? The guiding principle in their adventure is the original text of the Gospel, stripped of all the frills, decorations, interpretations and theological constructions that have been added to it over the centuries. The starting point is simple: does this message still have any meaning for us ordinary people today and our children and grandchildren in the future, and if so, what is that meaning and does it help us find an answer to the three fundamental questions of life? This book is written for people who continue to search for truth without compromise. In this quest we often encounter ourselves, but sometimes we also encounter the unnameable, the existence of which or whom we suspect in a quiet and unguarded moment, but cannot grasp or explain. The book contains more than a hundred different contributions about what is discussed in a Flemish rural community on a beautiful Sunday in order to find that truth.