Church Shopping in Cologne
Finding a local church is crucial. Shopping for one isn’t.
by Andrew Knot | Jul 16, 2019 | 1 comment
Finding a local church is crucial. Shopping for one isn’t.
by Andrew Knot | Jun 16, 2019 | 0 comments
Böll wrote prolifically about his city. I thought to turn to him for two thoughts about Cologne and what makes it distinct.
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2019 | 0 comments
In all of these cases, your intervention in your children’s lives was an essential condition in your children’s personhood, not an infringement on it.
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2019 | 0 comments
Innamorato operates on its own timeline, hardly accountable to anything but the desire of its owner to make good pies.
by Andrew Knot | Jan 16, 2019 | 0 comments
For the past week and a half I’ve been staying at an extended stay hotel in St. Louis, which was not a concept I was familiar with until I booked it.
by Andrew Knot | Dec 16, 2018 | 0 comments
But I’ve found solo travel to be a rewarding experience. Here’s what I learned.
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2018 | 0 comments
“And then of course you wonder if taking your wife to this show as the right thing to do, or if maybe you would have been better off going to dinner and having a conversation, even a monologue, as I suppose this has become.”
by Andrew Knot | Sep 16, 2018 | 0 comments
My American Saturdays began with a coffee and a crescendo of college football media. Blogs, Twitter, and ESPN College Gameday made for a surround-sound cacophony of predictions, punditry, and hot takes.
by Andrew Knot | Aug 16, 2018 | 0 comments
“Sì sì sì sì,” he said. The letters had rearranged themselves in Italian. This is how we would communicate.
by Andrew Knot | Jun 16, 2018 | 0 comments
Weekly we repeated the words. Gender is not the same as sex.
by Andrew Knot | Apr 16, 2018 | 0 comments
To believe in something other than what is materially in front of you is awkward. It likely means that what you expect tomorrow is impossible today.
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2018 | 0 comments
Coming off a slow, ugly but eventually conclusive first-round victory over Montana, the Wolverines are riding a wave of 10-straight wins. May the streak run longer than their inseams.
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2018 | 0 comments
I’ve only lived through three Karnevals, so I’d like to leave you with three thoughts on a holiday I’ve come to know, but not yet understand.
by Andrew Knot | Jan 16, 2018 | 0 comments
But some of the biggest edits often go unnoticed, like the tilt shift, which wholly alters the picture’s presentation. I asked Geli whether these tactics are deceptive, especially to novices like me. Are your pictures presenting the truth?
by Andrew Knot | Dec 16, 2017 | 0 comments
The story has been told, but the rest of us are still here: waiting in the middle of the narrative, confronted with Herod’s uncomfortable realization: we aren’t enough.
by Andrew Knot | Nov 16, 2017 | 0 comments
There’s a Dutch phrase about the Dom, my grandpa claims. “See the Cologne Cathedral and you can die.”
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2017 | 0 comments
The first thing is that protest has a clear place in church tradition. The scriptures and church history testify to it.
by Andrew Knot | Sep 16, 2017 | 0 comments
These three things struck me about the way Gopnik writes about place. Perhaps they contain a few lessons that will help us in writing about where we’re from, where we are, and where we’re yet to go.
by Andrew Knot | Aug 16, 2017 | 0 comments
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
by Andrew Knot | Jul 16, 2017 | 0 comments
In the US, wearing sweatpants to the grocery store is an act of conformity. In Germany as in many other countries on the continent, it’s an act of rebellion.
by Andrew Knot | Jun 16, 2017 | 0 comments
I was satisfied in my decision. There was thrill in riding without a ticket. And I was convinced that what I was doing was right. I was in line with the spirit of the law, even if the law had no spirit.
by Andrew Knot | May 16, 2017 | 0 comments
This month, I’d like to highlight a few things I’ve enjoyed reading online over the last couple of months, starting of course, with a piece on the perils of reading and writing online.
by Andrew Knot | Apr 16, 2017 | 0 comments
There are other surmised explanations for the rooster’s place on church steeples, but this account seems the most plausible to me.
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2017 | 0 comments
Life as an expat can be categorized according to two phenomena: experiences that reinforce the expat’s sense of belonging to her heritage and experiences that point to a shift in identity.
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2017 | 0 comments
Where had he been when? What happened on the way? Why was he there? How did he die? The answers were dispersed on these 28 square feet. We needed them to get out.
by Andrew Knot | Jan 16, 2017 | 0 comments
Thus, dousing your schnitzel in gravy is a gastronomical shot in the foot, tantamount to putting ice cream in the oven.
by Andrew Knot | Dec 16, 2016 | 0 comments
Vienna is a bizarre place to spend Advent because, as Billy Joel reminds us, it’s a city more accustomed to waiting than arriving.
by Andrew Knot | Nov 16, 2016 | 0 comments
Some were written before the election and some after, but each of them answers the question “How can I be a Christian citizen of the United States of America?” in a uniquely helpful way.
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2016 | 0 comments
Because of my extension, my tax deadline fell in a period of the liturgical year called Ordinary Time, which seems more apt than the traditional timing of Tax Day, so close to Passion Week.
by Andrew Knot | Sep 16, 2016 | 0 comments
We joked about casseroles and politeness and the American Midwest. Then he asked me how I like Cologne.