Fixing Our Thoughts
Why are we Christians not usually more positive about life? about the future? about people who are different from us? If we believe in a sovereign God who is working out his purposes in history, why are we so quick…
Polarised friends
The Dutch version of a book written by Pulitzer Prizewinner Anne Applebaum arrived this week, sent to me by my friend who had translated it for the publishers. As the English title suggests, The Twilight of Democracy is a sober warning of…
A Story Worth Repeating
Protest movements last week in the name of free and fair elections in the former Soviet satellites of Belarus and Kyrgzystan echo events in Central and Eastern Europe three decades ago. Similar scenes were witnessed the streets of the eastern…
Reason to Celebrate
The hospitalisation of a 74-year-old male American corona patient a few days ago overshadowed the 30-year commemoration on Saturday of one of the most successful geo-political experiments of all time: the reunification of Germany. For the last three decades of German…
Addressing Europe’s Shame
What should Christians be saying to Europe’s politicians about the shameful hypocrisy of European migration policy? The EU’s core values of equality, freedom and human dignity have been conspicuously absent in the the response of European nations to the plight…
