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To celebrate Advent–as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the nativity of Jesus and his return at the Second Coming–is simply ‘foolishness to the Greeks’ of Paul’s day and secular Europeans of our own…

I have wanted to write this for a while but kept postponing… and tried to understand why?! One of the simple explanations is that it is extremely difficult to write about national shame, inhumane ideologies, ordinary people with extraordinary hatred…

This month has marked the 29th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9) and of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (November 17), two events which catalysed the collapse of the communist system. In 1989, headlines everywhere announced…

The epilogue of a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. So what if the Bible has been so influential in…

Paris and Brussels, both dominating the headlines with terrorist attacks and threats, are the hot venues this week for significant events. The Paris Climate Change Conference will continue to grab headlines for the next twelve days as world leaders wrestle…