One of the biggest surprise discoveries so far on this year's Heritage trip-and there have been several-was that of the vital and diverse Francke Foundations in the Eastern German city of Halle. I had taught about Halle for decades-as a…
Amsterdam was paying tribute this weekend to a woman whom one paper called a 'figurehead of goodness', as we started our four-week Summer School of European Studies in the city. In a funeral service carried on national television, attended by…
So, the powers-that-be have settled on a new European treaty that will not be called a constitution. Good. That means we are not forced to have a European constitution that ignores God and the Judaic-Christian heritage. What we do have…
When I was a teenager, my brother gave me for my birthday a book of fifty-five sermons by John Wesley. Now most teenagers would have thought such a gift to be a joke, and responded with: 'Just wait till your…
The oft-quoted saying-'In essentials, Unity; in non-essentials, Liberty; in all things, Charity'-has been attributed wrongly to various well-known historical figures, including St Augustine and melanchthon, Luther's colleague, and John Wesley. Last week I wrote about the Together for Europe event…
