Utrecht was the centre of the cycling world this weekend with the start of the Tour de France. This two-thousand-year-old city is usually the starting point for the Continental Heritage Tour which also got under way this weekend. For obvious…
Imagine a network of 70 students and young professionals living in fellowship houses and apartments across the inner city, attending a discipleship programme oriented to engagement with society. Further, two hundred young entrepreneurs, lawyers, journalists, politicians, civil servants, academics, educators…
In the land of the midnight sun (last night was the shortest in my life) here above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway, the Pope’s new encyclical on the stewardship of the environment takes on special relevance. A barbeque was…
Tribunals are being constructed on the battle field of Waterloo to seat the hundreds of thousands coming this week to watch the re-enactment of the battle which shaped 19th century Europe 200 years ago this Thursday. I climbed to the…
Over Pentecost weekend, I was invited to speak at a seminar during the Opwekking Conference on the topic, ‘Europe: battlefield or mission field?’ To my surprise, the seminar tent was full. For, as I told my audience, ‘Europe’ traditionally…
