Europe suffers from amnesia. She has forgotten the source of her identity and of the values that shaped her culture. She has lost sight of the underlying unity expressed in the word “European”
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The reflections on Europe in the last issue of Vista (Vista 13, April 2013) contained naturally, a number of emphases on the economic and political crisis in the Eurozone, the secularism of the continent, and a lament that the continent that was once a missionary powerhouse was arguably in terminal decline
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There are two main observations that come to mind as Albania, an eastern European country thinks about the EU. The secular observation focuses on the hopeful economic development that EU countries could extend over to our country
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Spain 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.
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Sedlacek’s book Economics of Good and Evil (EGE) marks a fascinating departure from mainstream economic thought and provides the reader with a captivating smorgasbord of interactions across diverse fields
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Writing a book about Europe is not the best way to boost your pension contributions in the current climate. It seems that precious few people care anymore about the European Union.
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For so many years we were hearing and almost believing that the church in Europe is about to die. Now we are learning that the church in Europe is only sleeping and that the Lord is about to awaken it
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While I certainly wouldn’t consider myself an authority on Europe, what follows are my own perceptions that come from many years of involvement in mission in Europe
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It doesn’t take more than a cursory glance (and I took more than a cursory glance) at the regional English-language papers to notice that the primary interest in things European is an economic interest.
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The perspective on Europe from Africa must begin with an economic emphasis because it determines many other factors
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In this short interview, Mike Frost speaks exclusively to VISTA about what this more recent development indicates and how it can move the missional conversation forward.
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Between January and March 2012, I carried out some small-scale research amongst 18-30 year-old Christian Europeans, in order to discover their perceptions of a missional lifestyle
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Defining “missional” with any precision is no easy task. Perhaps the most helpful simple definition of “missional” church is that of “…a community of God’s people that defines itself and organises its life around its real purpose of being an agent of God’s mission to the world”
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According to Together in Berlin, more than eighty missional initiatives have started in the last 10 years. When you next visit Berlin, you might like to add one or two of them to your tour itinerary.
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Darrell Jackson reviews three non-English titles relating to the missional conversation as it unfolds across Europe, written in Dutch, Norwegian, and German respectively. Taken together they give a flavour of how mission-minded church leaders are trying to engage in the missional conversation across the continent.
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The unprecedented phenomenon of urbanization since the European Industrial Revolution has gone global, and shows no sign of letting up. Today, more than half of humanity is in, or within the domain of, a city. European Urbanisation is currently over 75% and is predicted to reach 82%.
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Did you know Europe’s historic cities are only three per cent of the world’s land mass, and could comfortably fit inside South Africa? Nevertheless, European cities have had a disproportionately massive influence on the rest of the world
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It is a widely accepted fact that Christianity in Britain is in terminal decline. The dominant narrative is that widespread secularization is leading inevitably towards, in the words of social historian Callum Brown, The Death of Christian Britain.
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In global terms there are only three Metropolitan areas in Europe that rank among the world’s top twenty, ranked by size. Moscow, London and Köln make it in at 15th, 17th and 19th respectively.
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Peter 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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