Views & Reviews
Last year I shared the platform at a YWAM conference in Canberra, Australia, with an American pastor who told me he had lost a thousand church members because of a sermon series he preached! These messages appeared in book form…
Views on Europe
A tradition we have developed is to start the year with a Weekly Word on books we are reading. So here are a number of titles on Europe I read over the past year. I invite you to tell me…
‘Happy’ New Year?
'Happy' New Year? How many people have we wished a 'Happy New Year' to over the past week? And what exactly were we wishing them? What, after all, makes people happy? Many westerners assume that happiness increases with wealth and…
The Way of Love
The Way of Love One thing struck me this week as I sorted through newspapers that had piled up at home during my recent travels. Religion is back! One prize-winning Dutch author, quoted in the secular NRC Handelsblad, suggests we…
The Road to Terror
The Road to Terror 'Jesus this song you wrote, The words are sticking in my throat, Peace on earth Hear it every christmas time, But hope and history won't rhyme, So what's it worth, This peace on earth?' Bono's words…
