Category: Columns

  1. The Soul Under Siege

    (The third in a series of four addressing the persistent Russian efforts to hijack Ukraine’s history.) If the Holodomor—the engineered famine of 1932–33—was Stalin’s attempt to…

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  2. The Holodomor: History Buried, Truth Denied

    (WeeklyWord extra: the second in a series of four on Ukraine’s hijacked history) By any measure, the Holodomor stands among the most horrifying atrocities of the…

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  3. History as a Weapon – I

    In war, the first casualty is truth. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long and brutal campaign waged by Moscow—not only against Ukraine’s sovereignty…

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  4. Transformed by Faith

    This weekend, the Geloof in Mokum series explores Amsterdam’s so-called ‘Golden Age’—a time when faith played a central role in making the city the world’s leader in the…

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  5. The New Mainstream

    The new mainstream

    Church leaders from around the world gathered in Amsterdam this week to commemorate 500 years of their Free Church tradition, which began as a persecuted minority…

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  6. Roots of freedoms?

    Roots of freedoms?

    As democracy, freedom of speech, human dignity and rights come under increasing threat even in the heart of the western nations, we are being forced to…

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  7. What lies beneath?

    What lies beneath?

    Nestled in the valley between the European Union institutions in Brussels is the Chapel for Europe, a reconstructed former convent chapel resurrected as an ecumenical worship…

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  8. Beyond Jerusalem

    Is this the time you are going to make Israel great again?’ Sometime between the Resurrection and the Ascension – where we happen to be today…

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  9. Kings or Leaders: A Time to Choose

    We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before…

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  10. Moving Beyond ‘Sides’ to Relational Wholeness

    On most days since Trump took office, the line that has run through my head is from the movie “Airplane!”: “Looks like I picked the wrong…

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