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  1. Still relevant!?

    October 5, 2025
    Columns

    This weekend we approach the twentieth century with the eighth of nine events in our Geloof in Mokum series. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam, we have been…

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  2. Letter to America

    September 28, 2025
    Columns

    In 1898, three years before he became prime minister of the Netherlands, Abraham Kuyper addressed American leaders in a series of lectures at Princeton Seminary.  I…

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  3. Some Lessons from Turkiye and India for the US Federal Reserve

    August 8, 2025
    Columns

    Central Bank Autonomy is Critical for Ensuring Healthy Economies and Financial Markets By Kamal Malhotra, August 6, 2025 A recent study published in the Harvard Business Review…

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  4. The Good Investor

    August 5, 2025
    Excerpts

    You may view the excerpt by opening the PDF document here.

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  5. The Soul Under Siege

    July 28, 2025
    Columns

    (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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  6. The Holodomor: History Buried, Truth Denied

    July 20, 2025
    Columns

    (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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  7. History as a Weapon – I

    July 12, 2025
    Columns

    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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  8. Displacement: Zweig, Roth and Benjamin; three eminent writers hunted to death by fascism

    July 4, 2025
    Excerpts

    Zweig, Roth and Benjamin: A Reflective Overview How does anyone cope with displacement from their homeland or permanent exile through war? Roth describes in his own…

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  9. Transformed by Faith

    June 27, 2025
    Columns

    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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  10. The New Mainstream

    June 7, 2025
    Columns
    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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