Last Wednesday evening–12.12.12–John Calvin’s cathedral in Geneva was filled with worshippers longing for fresh renewal and revival. The cathedral gathering was the culmination of five days of prayer and inspiration, including a two-day ‘school of restoration and reformation’. Jean-Claude Chabloz,…
Today Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, is in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the European Union, along with his colleagues Jose Manuel Barroso (EU Commission President) and Martin Schulz (President of the…
In my opinion, the best cure for grumbling about our present financial crisis is to spend a few days in the two-thirds world. After a week in Dakar, Senegal, I was confronted this weekend with the enormous inequality of wealth…
About forty years ago, the evangelical movement stirred from a century-long hibernation. Authors and speakers like John Stott, Francis Schaeffer, René Padilla and Samuel Escobar awakened awareness that the gospel carried implications beyond evangelism and church planting. The Lausanne Congress…
If Egyptian-born Hamed Abdel-Samad is right, Islam today is seriously ill and is culturally and socially in retreat. Like the Titanic, considered invincible, Islam is facing sudden global collapse with dire consequences for the West, he warns. Last week in…
