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Found 13 articles matching 'letter from america'.

April 2024

World News

Letter from America: ‘In wrath, remember mercy’
It was an unusual Sunday. A group of Ukrainian pastors had been in conversation with the missions leadership of the church to see if we might be able to partner with them.
Their ministry in ...
March 2024

World News

Letter from America: Lessons from past scandals
The trouble with writing an article about scandals is that it is essentially impossible to be specific without risking being scurrilous.
I’m sure there’s a place for the freedom of the media to write exposés. ...
January 2024

World News

Letter from America: First and last principles of leadership
In any year in America, you will find various Christian conferences and events aiming to teach us how to do better at ‘leadership’.
Interestingly enough, the venerable management consulting firm McKinsey is now itself emphasising ...
December 2023

The Editorial

‘Mid toil and tribulation…’
In CS Lewis’ novel, The Magician’s Nephew, there is a description of a dying world towards the start of the book.
It is a land – Charn – which was once a great civilisation, but ...
December 2023

World News

Letter from America: ‘A change of ideology that is reaching a tipping point’
Well, it’s been a long – and dramatic – few years. Last time I penned this column for en, I had fairly recently moved from pastoring a church next to Yale University to pastoring a ...
December 2016

Regular Columns

Trumped
I am a ‘legal alien’, I carry a Green Card and all our children have been born here, but I cannot vote in America.
With that in mind and also being a pastor, it is ...
March 2013

Regular Columns

Good news for orphans
Recently I have been involved in an international conference in Kiev, Ukraine, seeking to develop a ‘Ukraine Without Orphans’.
Why describe this, you ask, in 'Letter from America'? Because American Christians, too, are becoming focused ...
September 2011

Features

Letter from America
The US debt crisis has dominated the headlines for months.
First, because of the wrangling between the two main parties that took the US economy to the brink of a theoretical default (which everyone knew ...
September 2010

Regular Columns

Letter from America
A book which deserves a much longer review is James Davidson Hunter’s To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Later Modern World.
As I say, I cannot possibly do ...
August 2010

Regular Columns

Letter from America
Let me talk about an important book bearing on the American scene.
Sebastian Junger’s War (New York, 2010) is a specifically non-religious book, but with great relevance to assessments of the effects and experience of ...
September 2009

Regular Columns

Holidays and holy days
Another holiday season is coming to an end as I write and I wonder ‘What is the point of it all?’
If I remember rightly from my early modern history at Cambridge, summer holidays ...
September 2002

Regular Columns

One nation under God?
A federal court has recently ruled that the phrase 'under God' in the traditional pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional.
In a case brought by an atheist with children at public schools (equivalent to English state ...
July 2001

Regular Columns

Pomo Shmomo!
In America there is a turn of phrase which makes a play on a previous word to indicate mild - sometimes humorous - derision. So someone might say about breaking the speed limit 'Oh speeding, ...

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