During the month of July, the Schuman Centre republishes the drafts of Jeff Fountain's coffee-table book aiming to promote the centrality of the Bible's influence to our Western way of life and thinking. Trying to understand western culture without knowing…
How to live the legacy that Robert Schuman left in Europe. From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted (Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here) VI. What models are influencing the dialogue on Europe’s future? Dr Léonce Bekemans[1] identified…
Forty years ago this summer, my wife Romkje and I and our eight-month-old baby boy moved into the house next to our newly-purchased laundry building, close to the Heidebeek training centre in the Dutch countryside. What we were supposed to…
Discover the keynote address by Dr Teodor Baconschi at the State of Europe Forum 2019 in Bucharest (May 9th 2019)(1st part here) After the 1960s, the social identity of Christian communities was separated from traditional spirituality, nature was replaced by culture…
How to live the legacy that Robert Schuman left in Europe. From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted (Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here) V. Can sacred writings from a bygone agragrian age in the pre-industrial Middle East really have…
