Author: Jeff Fountain
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Heritage Tour
This three-day hybrid Heritage Tour, half illustrated talks and videos, half on location in Canterbury and London, will explore the transforming impact of the Gospel on Ireland and Britain. Some matching scholarships available for students and mission workers Book your place Contact Jeff Fountain by email jeff@schumancentre,eu, or phone +31681488655.
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Schuman Talk (Episode 22) – Marinela Blaj & Ineta Lansdowne
Join us on Saturday, July 9, at 6PM (CET) with Jeff Fountain and guests Marinela Blaj (Iasi, Romania) and Ineta Lansdowne (Riga, Latvia) for a new Schuman Talk on the topic of “Abusing Language to distort reality”. Post-truth politics is a political culture where true/false, honesty/lying have become a focal concern of public life. Following…
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Hope In Turbulent Times
Turbulent times are nothing new for the 400-year-old Temple du Marais, venue for next week’s State of Europe Forum in Paris . The storming of the Bastille Castle in 1789, triggering the French Revolution, took place just two hundred metres away. That led directly to the closure of the convent of which the domed circular church had been chapel. …
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Seeking Shalom – Then And Now
Even as we recoil in horror at Russia’s brutal destruction of Mariupol in the east, we watch with bated breath the contest for the French presidency in the west. Much hangs in the balance. The election outcome will shape France’s international relations. A President Le Pen would redefine Franco-German cooperation, challenge EU treaties and undermine…
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A Moral Rearmament?
A column in de Volkskrant, a leftish Dutch newspaper, grabbed my attention this week: ‘Europe must rearm itself, especially morally.’ For the first time in two generations, the term ‘rearmament’ is reappearing in the headlines. The shock-effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been to recalibrate everything over the past month, including galvanising German resolve to pick up shared…