'Now I understand why the French didn't want to acknowledge God in the EU constitution!' said Corrie as we emerged from the Reformation Museum in Geneva. 'All those terrible religious wars!' Corrie and her fellow travellers had been studying the…
One of the biggest surprise discoveries so far on this year's Heritage trip-and there have been several-was that of the vital and diverse Francke Foundations in the Eastern German city of Halle. I had taught about Halle for decades-as a…
Amsterdam was paying tribute this weekend to a woman whom one paper called a 'figurehead of goodness', as we started our four-week Summer School of European Studies in the city. In a funeral service carried on national television, attended by…
So, the powers-that-be have settled on a new European treaty that will not be called a constitution. Good. That means we are not forced to have a European constitution that ignores God and the Judaic-Christian heritage. What we do have…
When I was a teenager, my brother gave me for my birthday a book of fifty-five sermons by John Wesley. Now most teenagers would have thought such a gift to be a joke, and responded with: 'Just wait till your…
