Year of opportunity
In England at least, the New Year has made a promising start. Last week I visited an annual gathering of British mission agencies engaged in (the rest of) Europe. Now that in itself is a good start. For Brits interested…
Setting course for 2011
The New Year is the time for making resolutions and setting goals. So, here’s my first resolution, which in turn will lead to goals for the coming year... and years to come. Sitting on my desk has been a business…
A Star of hope
Here in the northern hemisphere we are enduring the longest nights of the year as we approach Christmas Day. Politically and economically things are rather dark too. Can we, like the wise men, glimpse a star of hope? Our national…
Wanted: States(wo)men!
What Europe needs right now is statesmen or -women, leaders with vision beyond national interest and who share a vision of Europe as a true community of peoples, with spiritual dimensions. Someone like, well, Jacques Delors. In the 1980‘s, the…
Europeans in America
Last week I visited Holland for the first time in my life–Holland in Michigan, USA, that is. Just a 30 minute drive from Grand Rapids and close to the shores of Lake Michigan, Holland is a city of 60,000 today,…
