Global Standstill
How the world can change in just a few days! As the seriousness of the global situation began to sink in towards the end of last week, more and more governments announced increasingly stringent measures to fight the spread of…
Why should we remember Robert Schuman?
A transcript of Jeff Fountain's speech during the State of Europe Forum 2019 in Bucharest. We should not just be telling the story of Schuman, but drawing people’s attention to the relevance of it. I was involved in January in…
An Inescapable Legacy
You could have been forgiven for thinking it was a church service Sunday last week. The evening opened with words from the first few verses of the Gospel of John chapter one being projected on a large screen and read…
An All-Pervasive Influence
The Bible has been the single greatest source of inspiration in the development of western art, right up to modern times (as we discussed last week in our Bible for Dummies series in the Upper Room in Amsterdam). Lack of knowledge of…
Viktor The Champion?
For Christians raised in church traditions that rarely if ever ‘did politics’, like myself, the recent emergence of politicians claiming to defend Christianity can be very confusing. With few instruments of discernment in our toolbox, we are easily tempted to…
