by Michiel Koperdraat | Dec 14, 2025 | Articles
Maria the Cricket and Martha the Ant In our society, the value of life is often measured in terms of labor, achievement, and productivity. Those who work are considered virtuous; those who rest are seen as lazy or work-shy. Yet something very essential is missing...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Nov 18, 2025 | Articles, Articles
In the Grip of the Smart Machine The smartphone, that high-tech device that constantly sends, radiates, beeps and offers, steals our silence, our attention, our sense of wonder, and the time to truly discover, play, learn and grow together. It tempts us with fleeting...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Jun 8, 2025 | Articles
The Meaning of Pentecost At Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. The apostles were suddenly filled with a powerful, divine energy. That moment was made visible through ‘tongues of fire,’ small flames that appeared above their heads. These...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Dec 25, 2024 | Articles
The Paradox of the Arrow The Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea identified famous paradoxes, including the paradox of ‘the arrow in flight.’ With this, he showed that the concept of motion might be an illusion. Zeno’s paradox about the arrow goes as...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Mar 10, 2024 | Articles
The Rainmaker Within Us Once I composed music for a music theater production based on a text about a ‘rainmaker’. The lyrics were inspired by the theme of the western film The Rainmaker from 1956. The rainmaker in that film was a man who claimed to be able to bring...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Sep 28, 2023 | Articles
Line of Integrity Winning or Losing by Johan Cruyff Netherlands had a football philosopher: Johan Cruijff, in my opinion, the world’s most innovative football player of all time with incredible technique. I grew up just a few hundred meters from Cruijff’s...
