Straddling the German-Austrian border at 1800 metres high above Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s infamous Eagle’s Nest remains a sober reminder of a madman’s disastrous attempt at world domination. This Easter weekend, the Kehlsteinhaus, as it is known in the German-speaking world, was…
Once upon a time, in a city called Copenhagen, there lived a story teller named Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75). His many tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Ice Maiden…
Here’s a verse to ponder for this coming Sunday, April first: ‘The fool has said in his heart, there is no God’ –Psalm 14:1. The psalmist’s wasn’t trying to offend or denigrate. Rather, he described a dangerous condition with real…
In many European schools and universities these days, believers in God are dismissed as mental dwarfs and intellectual wimps. Yet from ancient times right up to the present, many of history’s greatest and most influential minds have wrestled with the…
Three years ago this month, the Archbishop of Canterbury gathered a group of experts together at Lambeth Palace to seek ways to restore ethics and justice in global economics after the financial turmoil beginning in 2007. A year later, the…