A spirit of death hangs over our neighbourhood in Holland this easter. Flags fly at half mast from houses and farm buildings. Gloom, fear and anger dominate many domestic conversations. Rumours circulate of farmers going bankrupt. Shoppers horde milk and…
The Euro is coming. Soon the Euro will be money in our pockets. Like it or not, we will probably pay our fees for the next European Leaders Consultation (the last week of January 2002) in Euros. So what? How…
Remember a couple of weeks ago when I lost my shirt over reports of Europe being 'still the most Christian continent'? I concluded facetiously that David Barrett and Todd Johnson, editors of the World Christian Encyclopedia, must have been counting…
Last week I was back in the Black Forest, in southern Germany, where nearly twelve years ago I first met with a small group of leaders from other organisations. Stuart McAllister, then with Operation Mobilisation, had gathered us together to…
Where do you think the geographical centre of Europe is? In 1989, the French National Geographic Institute announced the surprising news that Paris was NOT the centre! Instead, they announced, the geographical centre was a point just north of Vilnius,…
