For the thousands of tourists who gather daily in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of Christianity’s unique gifts to humankind–compassion for the poor–can be seen in graphic detail. The Portal of the Last Judgement is the west…
A good thing about crises is that they force us back to essential questions. They compel us to rethink our priorities, retrace our assumptions and re-examine our foundations. So a serious multi-fronted crisis may be exactly what Europe has needed…
Europe ignored Africa to her own peril. That was the clear message in The Hague on Friday evening from Nobel Prize winner Frederik de Klerk, who oversaw with Nelson Mandela the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. Europe needed…
That stage of life when one starts attending more funerals than weddings was passed long ago for my wife and me. But this week was exceptionally busy with three ceremonies to honour the deceased. Funerals, like weddings, are occasions when…
The time seemed ripe last week to confront some Evangelical sacred cows. At an annual gathering of Evangelical leaders from across Europe, held in Holland, I was asked to share thoughts on ‘a faith-based response to Europe’s crises’. Jim…
