What are we waiting for?
Palm Sunday, Como, Italy: We had arranged to meet our friends at the Piazza Duomo at 10am. But on arrival, we discovered that we were not the only ones gathering around the great marble cathedral at that…
Planet ‘Water’?
Our planet has been wrongly named. That was the opinion of a science reporter I once read in a German airline magazine. And flying across the mighty Pacific and then the North Atlantic on a 12,000 kilometre trip back to…
Pretty good advice
Kiwi culture is something I have to readjust to everytime I visit my land of birth. New slang and expressions demand translation and explanation. christians often have had a name for running behind the times. Many of us grew up…
God in public
The Archbishop of Canterbury's recent lecture addressing the relationship of Islam to public law 'touched several raw nerves in our culture', commented the popular evangelical Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, at the London School of Economics last Thursday. When that…
Red lights go out
A miracle is unfolding in Amsterdam's infamous Red Light district, following the prayers and actions of many in recent years. Supported by two-thirds of the city's inhabitants and all but two of his city council, Mayor Job Cohen is driving…
