THE MEN WERE DRESSED LIKE BILBO BAGGINS, THE HOBBIT. Knee-britches, silver-buckle shoes and jackets lined with silver buttons. The women sported bodices beautifully latticed with ornate silver chains, brooches and buckles. Like actors awaiting the next take of 'Lord of…
YOU'RE A TEXAN MARRIED TO A BRAZILIAN. Your twin's wife is French. Your younger brother married a Swede. Imagine the interesting discussions at family gatherings these days! Commission reports related to 9/11, Iraq and the war on terrorism are coming…
I HAVE A PROBLEM. Romkje and I are trying to take a couple of quiet weeks before a busy season of travel and conferences ahead hits us. My problem is that quiet reading and meditation stirs up all sorts of…
JOHN CLARK (1933-2004) WAS ONE OF THOSE QUIET, UNASSUMING, GENTLE PEOPLE whose impact on others can easily be underestimated. Yet at a thanksgiving service held in his memory last week on the YWAM base in Harpenden, north of London, John's…
BIG IDEAS ARE OUT, SO WE'RE TOLD. Post-modern society is diverse and fragmented, and can't be reduced to any one organising concept, like capitalism or socialism. Pragmatism reigns. If it works, it's good. Single issue politics is popular. That we…
