THE LINES, PAINTED IN WHITE CALLIGRAPHY ON THE BLACK FACTORY WALL, silently summarised why we were gathering over the past two weeks as YWAM leaders from around the world. The occasion was our annual Global Leadership Gathering, this time in…
A VIDEO WAR WAS WAGING IN THE BALKANS LAST WEEK WHILE THE WORLD WAS TRANSFIXED BY EVENTS IN ENGLAND AND LEBANON. Serbian television fired the first shots by airing video footage from 1995 ostensibly showing Croatian and Bosnian soldiers executing…
HOW SHOULD WE RELATE TO CHRISTIANS OF OTHER TRADITIONS THAN OUR OWN? Over the past few weeks we have considered some dynamic lay movements within the Catholic church. Yet few protestants have heard of groups like the Focolare and St…
A MONTH AFTER RETURNING FROM ROME, I AM STILL PROCESSING THE THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE 'FOCOLARE TRAIL'. Travelling for ten days in a bus from Trent to Rome with fellow passengers from a wide church background-Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Episcopalian,…
SUDDENLY, AS IF SOMEONE BLEW A WHISTLE, SAID THE MINISTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, THE STREETS OF ROME WERE FILLED WITH PEOPLE EACH EVENING FANNING OUT TO FEED THE POOR. No, the Scotsman was not describing the work of his…
