What is a human being for?
Hope, Gerard Kelly told his listeners at the Next 20 Years symposium in Amsterdam ten days ago, was the answer to the question, ‘what did it mean to be human?’ How did we then, as Christians, so lose our vision…
A global civil war?
Under a barrel ceiling dating back to before Christopher Columbus, and facing a stained-glass window depicting the Pilgrim Fathers praying as they left Holland for America via Plymouth on the Mayflower, some 200 friends and staff of YWAM gathered in…
What is freedom (for)?
A fundamental rethink of the idea of freedom was needed today, twenty years after millions of East Europeans had been freed from oppressive government. André Rouvoet, Holland’s Deputy Prime Minister, told this to an audience of leaders from politics, church…
Fostering a European conversation
Sometimes I wonder how many magazines serve the Body of Christ in America, creating conversation and dialogue across the continent. I can think of quite a few off the top of my head. How many serve a similar function in…
The end is nigh!
No, I’m not a doomsday prophet, but it is true. The end draws nigh–at least, of my twenty years as leader of YWAM in Europe. Next month in Amsterdam, Friday December 11, we hold a symposium and a reception to…
