The international community is this month remembering the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which started on April 6, 1992. During the 1,425 days of the siege 11,541 people were killed, of whom 1,500 were children. Early in 1993 I had the privilege of...
0 Comments | Posted December 28, 2011 | 11:11 AM
Most of the media today feeds our imagination with stories of celebrity-type leaders associated with dubious morality, scandalous relationships, questionable prosperity and irresponsible leadership.
It is important today to have our minds focused on the memories of a different brand of leaders, such as William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English...
0 Comments | Posted September 26, 2011 | 12:25 PM
Investing in a new generation of leaders transformed by the person of Jesus, committed to peace building, reconciliation, dialogue, leadership with integrity and building of serving and caring communities.
"This event was unlike any other I've ever attended", "I returned home with the soul so rich and happy", "These two...
0 Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 11:50 AM
Ten years ago, only three weeks after the unprecedented Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S., which took more than 3,000 innocent lives, I shared the following letter with a group of my American friends.
Dear American Friends,
Like you I too am overwhelmed with the recent tragedy that struck...
0 Comments | Posted May 19, 2011 | 4:09 PM
I am pro-life, but not only for the unborn. And I wish many Christians who fiercely oppose the legalization and socialization of abortion, would dare go much further too.
Imagine what a transforming impact an army of Christian pro-lifers would have in the U.S. and elsewhere, if we would...
0 Comments | Posted March 15, 2011 | 3:26 PM
If the international community desires to help the Libyan people by now it is desperately running out of time. At this moment the Libyan Colonel Gaddafi and his family are on a killing spree against their own people, through indiscriminate slaughter, blatant lies, shameless cover-up and arrogant defiance.
While...
0 Comments | Posted February 28, 2011 | 1:11 PM
As I was reading my Bible in a local Starbucks one week ago, an elderly man approached me with a question: "What do you think about the situation in Egypt?" In no time we were discussing if the recent events in Egypt had a prophetic, eschatological role. Soon he was...

0 Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 6:41 PM