Sober reflections
OUR YEAR HAS BEGUN FOR YWAM INTERNATIONAL ON A VERY SOBER TONE. We have been shocked by report after report from around the world of untimely deaths through senseless car accidents or heart failure at a far-too young age. The…
Readers’ Digest
FROM INDIA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY AND BELGIUM COMES THE FOLLOWING SAMPLING OF HOLIDAY READING. Pat Shultz, from the USA, gives this personal tip in response to the suggestion (cited last week) that we should only bother with the One Book:…
Worth writing home about
LET'S REFLECT FOR A MOMENT, BEFORE WE RUSH INTO OUR NEW YEAR SCHEDULES, ON BOOKS. The Christmas-New Year break offers cosy warm evenings in front of the fire curled up with an exciting page-turner, at least in the northern hemisphere;…
A pagan festival?
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DECEMBER 25 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL BIRTH OF JESUS, RIGHT? And that the Church Fathers simply baptised an already pagan festival celebrating the re-birth of the sun as symbolic of the birth of the…
The Italian Connection
TURIN, HOST OF THE APPROACHING WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES, IS ALSO HOME TO A CENTURIES-OLD UNDERGROUND EVANGELISM MOVEMENT, WHICH BECAME MID-WIFE TO THE REFORMATION. For, nestled at the foot of the Italian Alps, Turin is a modern centre of the Waldensian…