The Thirteenth of August is a special day in the Moravian calendar. On this date, exactly 275 years ago this year, the members of the Herrnhut community experienced a pentecostal outpouring in the small Lutheran church in the nearby village…
Headlines in De Telegraaf last week screamed with bold, underlined letters: "Half city youth of foreign origin". The opening paragraph explained that more than half of all children under the age of fifteen in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague…
Britain last week was in the grip of 'Big Brother' television - judging from the tabloid headlines and opportunistic books I saw on sale in the railway stations and airports, passing through on a quick visit. Until recent years, the…
Phrases such as 'good and evil', 'moral standards' and 'norms and values' are sprinkled throughout the financial pages of the newspapers these days. The headline in the economic section of one of Holland's leading papers this weekend read: "Capitalism has…
I was leafing through a book on 'chaos theory' in a library once, and discovered one of those yellow 'post-it'-stickers marking a page in the middle. Scribbled on the sticker was: "Come back later - mind is beginning to boggle".…
