decisiveness the communities the church is pruning but i've not given up hope that it still attracts reflective people people who are seeking meaning in their life. if i didn't follow in my father's footsteps as a baker because well i did become a baker at first but at the age of sixteen i was told that with my leg problems it wouldn't be good for me to do a job read to stand so much so instead of retraining to join the post office of the railways i thought i'd do evening school that's almost fiercely if i trust in the strength of german civil society because but if you must talk of civil society is increasingly the place where democracy and humanity are upheld. democracy is the only form of government which can also topple the state as we've seen recently in a number of nations. but democracy is also the only form of government where the citizens