Events

08

March

  • 08 March, 2025
  • 14:30 - 17:30

Maison Jean Goss, Kohlhuette, 67290 Wimmenau

Encounter

The Tree of Wrath
Meeting with the Author

Annelise Wendling, writer and retired teacher, presents her second novel entitled “The Tree of Wrath”. A mixture of fiction and reality, it is about the story of the Malgré-Elles and the existence of those who remain excluded from modern life: migrants, elderly and disabled people.

29

March

  • 29 March, 2025
  • 14:30 - 17:30

Maison Jean Goss, Kohlhuette, 67290 Wimmenau

Exchange

Alternative banks, microcredits, what is our money used for?

The presentation will introduce Oïkocredit* and give an overview of cooperative banks in France to help us reconcile financial investments and equity.

Oïkocredit is a global cooperative and social impact investor with 50 years of experience. The founders of Oikocredit wanted to ensure that investments by private and institutional investors contribute to peace and positive development.

in the world. They created a responsible investment vehicle that provides loans to companies and individuals in low-income countries.

Béatrice de Schauenburg, investor and volunteer of the “Oïkocredit France Est” support association, which represents the region’s investors in the cooperative and aims to make Oïkocredit’s activities known to the general public.

26

April

  • 26 April, 2025
  • 09:30 - 17:30

Maison Jean Goss, Kohlhuette, 67290 Wimmenau

"Building Hope,
with Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich and Lanza del Vasto"

“What can we still hope for in the world as it is (or rather, as it is not)?

Three men from the last century reflected on the 21st century and laid down guidelines to help us build concrete hope.

We will learn more about their life stories and their valuable work and together we will try to find a way of commitment to a more just and peaceful world.”

Speaker: Frédéric Rognon, Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg, author and specialist in Jacques Ellul, Lanza del Vasto and publication director of the Foi & vie magazine.

Registration required (places limited to 12 people)
Participation fee 20€/person (including meal) payable to the le Soc association
Information 03 88 89 81 67

17

Mai

  • 17 Mai, 2025
  • 14:30 - 17:30

Maison Jean Goss, Kohlhuette, 67290 Wimmenau

"Conflicts in the Middle East: Origins and Current Situation"

“With the aggression of Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023 and the Israeli counter-aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, then the expansion of the conflict in Lebanon and the unrest in Syria, the Middle East has returned to the front pages of our media in a dramatic way. Yet the roots of all these tragedies lie much further back.

Let’s try to see things more clearly. “.

Speaker: “Ernest Reichert, retired pastor, director of Action
Christ in the Orient from 1992 to 2007, president of the Friends of Sabeel France from 2012 to 2024 »

14

June

  • 14 June, 2025
  • 14:30 - 17:30

Maison Jean Goss, Kohlhuette, 67290 Wimmenau

Stir up war or promote peace?

We all want peace and nobody wants war.
We thought the war was over.
In the face of reality, we feel helpless and powerless. We will discover active nonviolence, an essential resource to better understand and work for peace in our daily lives.
Speaker: Claude Braun, member of MIR (International Movement for Reconciliation)