CONVERSATIONS IN HUNGARIAN AND ROMANIAN SWIRL AROUND ME on the night train from Sopron in Hungary to Medias in Romania. Nothing is intelligible to me until suddenly I heard the words, 'Da Vinci Code'. I prick up my ears but…
THE PROFESSOR WAS EXPLAINING TO HIS STUDENTS that, while in many languages a double negative made a positive, a double positive never made a negative. From the back of the lecture hall came the cynical response, "Yeah, right!" Could last…
SOMETHING SURPRISING IS GOING ON IN FRANCE, FAR FROM THE MADDING DEBATE ABOUT THE EU CONSTITUTION. Observers are detecting a post-secular renewal of spiritual interest. Not that anyone suggests this was a factor in the French 'NON'. But while the…
FEW PLACES REVEAL THE MANY LAYERS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY LIKE THE DANUBE WATERFRONT OF BUDAPEST. This week Romkje and I, along with other evangelical leaders, visited the Hungarian capital for a cluster of meetings relating to the spreading networks and…
'SO FAR, SO GOOD!' SAID THE OPTIMIST as he hurtled towards earth after jumping out of the aeroplane without a parachute. 'So far, so good!' say the optimists as the proposed EU constitution hurtles towards the French and Dutch referenda…
