Rosaliene Israel is an ordained minister and was until January 1, 2025 the secretary-general of the Protestant Church in Amsterdam, overseeing twenty-five faith communities in the city. For a number of years she lived in and led a new monastic community located right at the center of the Red Light District in Amsterdam. She also is a PhD candidate preparing a dissertation on new monastic communities. With Rev. Israel we speak about the deeply secularized Amsterdam context and the ways in which the church still creates places of holiness and hospitality in the city. In particular, we discuss the creative ways in which the church uses its old sanctuaries as means of witness to the gospel – a challenge also for North American congregations that wonder what to do with their buildings.

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