UPPER ROOM events include: • European Studies Courses (3 full Saturday programmes) • Route 66 evenings, journeys of discovery through history's most influential book, the Bible • Book discussions • Film evenings Address: Prins Henrikkade 50 - Amsterdam (above Dwaze…
Sometimes we need to risk sticking our heads out over the parapet to look beyond our own church, organisation, neighbourhood or nation – to catch a much bigger picture of what God is doing across Europe and in our world. …
Travel is opening up again across Europe at last as corona restrictions are easing. So come with us this summer on an exploratory trip through time and space. No, we are not organising a trip across the continent in mini-vans …yet.…
Join Jeff Fountain online in the Upper Room as he continues the Bible for Dummies series on Friday evenings each fortnight as follows. Discover the far-reaching influence of the Bible on our daily lives even in a secularized society.
Pentecost marks the birth of the Jesus movement that is still sweeping the world beyond the awareness of most Europeans, most dramatically in our lifetime. It was a supernatural event, like the Incarnation and the Resurrection, neither planned nor caused…
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…
The UEFA Champions League playoffs between the last sixteen teams don’t resume yet for another three weeks. And yet the high choral strains of the anthem familiar to any football fan resounded through the Upper Room salon in Amsterdam as…
Looking back on 2019, we are grateful for the diversity of events, activities and publications related to the Schuman Centre in over a dozen countries. The first State of Europe Forum (SOEF) in the second half of the year, ‘Schuman for Kids’…
In many European Union member states today, the Good Samaritan of Jesus’ famous parable would risk being arrested as a criminal for offering humanitarian aid and perhaps be imprisoned for human trafficking. Police, immigration officials, border guards and court officials…
“Is the world getting better, worse or staying the same?” If you think it is getting worse, you’re in good company. The majority of audiences in 30 countries who were asked this question believed that things were indeed getting worse…
