Jeff Fountain

If you're old enough to remember those three disturbing words on the TIME cover in 1966, "IS GOD DEAD?", this week's European edition of the magazine brings the welcome news that maybe He's not so dead after all. Granted, He…

Somehow I had always suspected that Paul had rather stuffed it up in Athens. From his experience in that city of idolatry, Paul had gone straight to nearby Corinth, arriving in 'fear and trembling', spurning human philosophy in favour of…

When Erion Veliaj returned to Albania from study in America, he saw his homeland through new eyes: the widespread corruption, the human trafficking, the poor level of services, the blood feuding, the poverty, and so on. His overseas experience, and…

As business droned on, my eye was drawn to the large flip-over sheets taped on the walls of the meeting room, the fruit of some earlier activity evidently involving a very special class of young people: Missionary Kids. MK's. Perhaps…

It was one of those moments when a familiar passage of scripture bubbles forth with enough new revelation to inspire a month of meetings. Around the table sat a mixture of mainstream church representatives and leaders of immigrant churches in…