One hundred years ago this week, thousands lined the streets to farewell the man they had once voted their most popular countryman. • He had started their country’s first modern political party and served as their prime minister 1901-1905. •…
Lost for many against the ‘horror’ background of halloween, global pandemic, American elections and a looming no-deal Brexit was the commemoration of Reformers’ Day on October 31. For on this day in 1517, ‘Hallowed Eve’ (hence Halloween) in the church calendar,…
Why are we Christians not usually more positive about life? about the future? about people who are different from us? If we believe in a sovereign God who is working out his purposes in history, why are we so quick…
The Dutch version of a book written by Pulitzer Prizewinner Anne Applebaum arrived this week, sent to me by my friend who had translated it for the publishers. As the English title suggests, The Twilight of Democracy is a sober warning of…
Protest movements last week in the name of free and fair elections in the former Soviet satellites of Belarus and Kyrgzystan echo events in Central and Eastern Europe three decades ago. Similar scenes were witnessed the streets of the eastern…
