The primary human relationship
While visiting a sculpture park in New Zealand some time ago, my wife and I came across a giant clothes peg standing well over two metres high. Yet the one word on the name board made us see this common…
Canaries in the coal mine
Following the killings of four Jews in a kosher market in Paris last month, commemorations held last week of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops carried special poignancy. As a handful…
Thank you, Sir Fred!
Sir Fred Catherwood was a unique figure in the British and European evangelical world. Vice-president of the European Parliament as communism was collapsing from 1989 to 1992, and later president of the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, he dared to…
Understanding the times
Questions bombard us from all sides. Where and when will the next Islamist terror attack be? What will Putin do next? What effect will the Greek elections have on the European economy? Can democracy survive the intolerance of the ‘tolerance’…
Defending freedom?
Let me exercise the freedom of expression everyone on the streets says they are defending: Je n’suis pas Charlie! After the mass demonstrations in Paris and other cities across Europe and beyond, I’m left unsettled and confused. What statement exactly…