FROM INDIA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY AND BELGIUM COMES THE FOLLOWING SAMPLING OF HOLIDAY READING. Pat Shultz, from the USA, gives this personal tip in response to the suggestion (cited last week) that we should only bother with the One Book:…
LET'S REFLECT FOR A MOMENT, BEFORE WE RUSH INTO OUR NEW YEAR SCHEDULES, ON BOOKS. The Christmas-New Year break offers cosy warm evenings in front of the fire curled up with an exciting page-turner, at least in the northern hemisphere;…
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DECEMBER 25 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL BIRTH OF JESUS, RIGHT? And that the Church Fathers simply baptised an already pagan festival celebrating the re-birth of the sun as symbolic of the birth of the…
TURIN, HOST OF THE APPROACHING WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES, IS ALSO HOME TO A CENTURIES-OLD UNDERGROUND EVANGELISM MOVEMENT, WHICH BECAME MID-WIFE TO THE REFORMATION. For, nestled at the foot of the Italian Alps, Turin is a modern centre of the Waldensian…
DUTCH TELEVISION NEWS PLAYED OLD BLACK-AND-WHITE NEWSREEL FOOTAGE FROM THE 1930'S LAST WEEK, ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF INDUSTRIALIST FRITS PHILIPS AT THE AGE OF 100 YEARS. Standing with evangelist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament Movement. "Mister Frits" was…