Once upon a time we used to talk about the environmental crisis; slowly we have come to talk about crises. Global warming, pollution, overfishing, damage to ecosystems, invasive species and other matters are all topics of major concern.
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Pollution and the death of man (1970) was Francis Schaeffer’s response to criticisms made during the 1960s that evangelical Christianity lacked a theology of proper care for the environment.
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Climate change is not the only environmental issue, facing us today but it is certainly the one that we hear most about.
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During 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
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How concerned are people living in the EU about the environment – and what do they think should be done to address these concerns? This was the focus of a Eurobarometer survey carried out in 2014 across all EU member states.
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Much of the current debate about European migration policy resembles a game of political ping-pong with claim and counter-claim advanced, argued, and entrenched. The debate is not helped by a general lack of reasonably accurate statistics.
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We 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.
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These are my ponderings and reflections of the refugee situation which occurred during 2015 in South East Hungary. These are the keywords which for me described the situation which unfolded
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I first became aware of the current crisis in December of 2014. One day in Advent a new family joined us for worship, possibly the poorest family I had ever seen.
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An article published by the New York Times in August 2015 alluded to the 21st-century migrants and their basic needs as human beings. Guess which were the essentials mentioned?
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Fear is not a big driver in my life. I became acutely aware of this while listening to a charming and reasonable French official from the Calais prefect's office, as he addressed a group of muddy people in the Kabul cafe in the heart of the Jungle.
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Before Christmas, Chancellor Merkel seemed to criticise the European nations for not being sufficiently Christian in their response to the human tragedy. To what extent did that strike a chord among German evangelicals?
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The longer I work with refugees, the more I am convinced that Christ is more important than any ingenuity that we have created in humanity. I have seen that Christ can heal what humans cannot.
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As a network of national Evangelical Alliances, the European Evangelical Alliance is attempting to resource and support Christians across the continent who are dealing with the migrant situation.
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2083: A European Declaration of Independence is not a widely read nor a well-known text. It was distributed electronically on the 22nd July 2011, the same day that a 36 year old Norwegian murdered 77 people
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Since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, as the hope of future prosperity has dissipated, so has confidence in the European project, and almost inevitably, nationalism has returned to Europe.
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In the European context, we are living in cultures with an identity crisis. Many of us have yet to work out how to be faithful to our calling within that situation
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The following press release was produced as part of the EEA General Assembly in Germany. It reflects the response of the Evangelical Community to the influx of migrants in recent months, warning against the dangers of prejudice and nationalism.
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One of the marks of the Reformation was the impulse to translate the Bible into the vernacular languages of Europe, so that the ploughboy could sing its words as he followed the plough.
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This 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,
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