The sun shines. The lake glimmers. This summer, like summers past, an adult kind of faith will emerge from the waters. Personal faith, wet and fresh. To me, the Christian practice of baptism assumes a special resonance as the rite of passage into an adult kind of faith.
Read MoreIs there any other network that, in terms of its geographical extent and its ethnic, cultural and generational diversity, can compare to the church of Jesus Christ?
Read MoreDuring the 1960s the southern Spanish region of Almería made the very most of its desert climate. It became a popular location for films like Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and it continues to do so today
Read MoreWe lived in Athens for many years. Paul was on Mars Hill in Athens saying ‘at a point in time that God has appointed the boundaries to change’. The current movement of peoples into Europe is unbelievable. Europe will change for generations.
Read MoreThis brief article traces the lives of Lorenzo Lucena and George Borrow who, though little known, made significant contributions to the translation and distribution of the Spanish Bible during the 19th Century,
Read MoreMission agencies have engaged in church planting across Europe for many decades. Yet increasingly they are engaged in facilitating church multiplication through partnering with national churches rather than being the pioneers themselves.
Read MoreLooking from the inside, ‘we Europeans’ are much more aware of the mosaic of ethnic origins, languages, national and regional histories, political traditions, cultures, and lifestyles. Many of us are strongly attached to our particular identity, feeling ‘European’ only in a secondary or an accessory way.
Read MoreI have lived in France for the past 14 years involved in a ministry of grass-roots ecumenical cooperation in a Roman Catholic parish. The following elements strike me as being significant with regard to future mission.
Read MoreIt took only few years before the countries from the Communist block dismantled the one party systems and introduced political pluralism as a precondition to transition into democracies.
Read MoreIn the last decade the term ‘missional’ has become a prominent focus among American, Australian and British authors. The missional conversation is often misunderstood or even dismissed as a new recipe for making struggling churches successful.
Read MoreSpain has always had a rather love/hate relationship with the rest of Europe. Throughout its history Spain has allied with the Dutch, English and Germans against the French, with the French against the English, and found itself alone facing Germany, France and England.
Read MorePeter Crawford (ECM) and Mike Pears (Urban Expressions) share their visions of mission in two of Europe’s cities: Lisbon and Bristol
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