Category: Columns

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. The New Realities

    In twenty-four years of writing Weekly Word, this week’s edition is for me the saddest. The events of the past days and weeks are forcing us to…

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  9. Navigating Today’s Disruptive Leadership Winds

    (This essay is largely adapted from a retreat I led this week with a group of non-profit CEOs focusing on today’s disruptive leadership challenges.) “Zuckerberg says…

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  10. A Conversation on “A United Nations for the 21st Century”

    View the document here.

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