Muslims are not the people who live somewhere else, but are our neighbours in all European states. They are in Europe to live and stay, and they have the right to hear the good news.
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Upon arriving in the UK, Romanian migrants who in one sense or another identify as Christian face a range of options if they wish to meet with other Christians and enjoy fellowship with them
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The 2016 referendum on the UK’s continuing membership of the EU was not the first time UK voters had gone to the polls in an EU referendum, but it is certainly the one that history will recall in any post-2016 account of Europe.
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As a nation, Britain was extremely badly prepared for the referendum on EU membership. There is a longstanding legacy of British neglect of the EU, indeed of all things ‘European’, not least among those who shape public debate in politics and the media.
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Through Brexit, the British electorate was making a decision based on two competing narratives about who we are and what is our place in the world. This was a vote about identity
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Many Christians who said they were going to vote Leave had narratives that dominated their perspective. They didn’t all use the same language but three distinct controlling narratives were repeated over and over again.
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For many years I have been interested in mission in Europe, encompassing the preaching of the gospel, justice ministries, and engagement in the public square. This deepened when I had the opportunity to live in Brussels in the 1990s, working in the Legal Service of the European Commission
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It is said that there are three things British people don’t talk about: money, sex and politics. Now there are only two. Both before the referendum vote and especially afterwards, politics was a frequent – and at times the only – topic of conversation.
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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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