I received this letter this last week, in response to my article, “The Studied Irrelevance of American Foreign Missions.” The letter contains important insights concerning the nature of modern missions – both foreign and at home – so I asked the sender for permission to publish it here completely. I only edited out any information [...]
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The history of Christianity in the last two decades in Europe reveals a new pattern in persecutions of faithful Christians by pagan authorities. In the past, Christians were persecuted on the basis of laws or whims of rulers that specifically forbade Christian worship or gatherings. Such was the case in the Roman Empire. Such was [...]
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Located in the very heart of modern-day Germany, in the province of Hesse, is a small humble town of only 15,000 inhabitants. In the middle of that town stands an imposing old cathedral built in the 12th-14th centuries of reddish stone. Situated in front of that cathedral is the statue of a man in a monk’s garb on a stump of a freshly felled oak, with a huge Saxon ax in his hand.
Full Story » Located in the very heart of modern-day Germany, in the province of Hesse, is a small humble town of only 15,000 inhabitants. In the middle of that town stands an imposing old cathedral built in the 12th-14th centuries of reddish stone. Situated in front of that cathedral is the statue of a man in a monk’s garb on a stump of a freshly felled oak, with a huge Saxon ax in his hand.
Full Story » Wal-Mart has outsourced the production of certain goods to Africa and thus taken away the livelihood of dozens or even hundreds of families and small businesses in the Midwest who used to produce those goods. The cost went down, the participants admitted, but Wal-Mart outsourced the production to countries where slave labor-and even child slave labor-is used.
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