Dutch church members find church important against loneliness during times of crisis

Gas prices remain high. A tour around Europe shows that churches are not yet concerned about their financial situation. A church that has been working on sustainability for years, sometimes to the irritation of fellow believers, can now count on interest from other churches.

The high inflation leads to expensive groceries, a high energy bill and rising mortgages. All these costs do not make the lives of families with stay-at-home moms any easier. Some of them have to go back to work to make ends meet.

One of the most significant social schisms of today, and possibly of the years to come, is the climate. Now, you could easily fill a whole series of episodes of this column on that because the topic is, after all, broad. But it is always good to make big problems small by focusing on one sub-theme.