TIME magazine recently featured the popular American rapture-mentality book series called "Left Behind". In this series, believers are raptured into glory leaving non-believers on a planet headed towards apocalyptic disaster. Personally, I think the far greater danger is that we,…
Loren Cunningham tells a story of two young men asleep on a barge tied to the banks of the river, upstream from the Niagara Falls. During the night, the moorings loosened and the barge began to drift downstream. The growing…
We Europeans sometimes suffer from a Euro-centricism which can blind us to global realities. This is not new. When Marco Polo returned from his momentous Silk Road travels to China in the thirteenth century, people simply didn't believe his reports…
Only the small sign, 'Menno's Fermanje', distinguished the house from others in the street. Three simple windows and a door. Modest living quarters in the front, and a high roof over the rear section for the farm animals. A typical…
Millions of Europeans have just returned to the office after summer vacations spent somewhere close to 'nature'. If that 'somewhere' was in Central Europe, that 'nature' got a wee bit out of hand last week. This in shrill contrast to…
