• Editorial – The power of relationships in times of hope under pressure

    Editorial – The power of relationships in times of hope under pressure0

    When I think of relationships, I first think about the first one we read about in the Bible. The relationship between the Godhead. “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…” Genesis 1:26. This relationship is followed quickly by a second relationship in Genesis 2:18, “The LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’

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  • People of Hope!

    People of Hope!0

    It’s seven in the morning! My alarm goes off, I open my eyes, and it is still dark and cold. I hear the hail against the window and the rainwater gushing down from the roof tiles. I don’t feel like waking up.
    I still remember one of my foster sons, while waiting for asylum in the Netherlands, asking the same question when we would try to wake him up to go to school.”Why should I get up and go to school when my future is so uncertain?” I can imagine so many people in dire circumstances, are asking that same question every day: why do I live?

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  • The fifth Mark of Mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation & sustain and renew the life of the earth

    The fifth Mark of Mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation & sustain and renew the life of the earth0

    A few weeks ago, I sat as an NGO observer on the balcony in the General Assembly Hall at the UN headquarters in New York and watched the opening event of the UN Summit of the Future with excitement. In view of the numerous challenges in the world – wars and conflicts, fear of further global pandemics, persistently high levels of poverty, widespread hunger, lack of prospects for the younger generation, challenges posed by new technologies and artificial intelligence – UN Secretary-General António Guterres had convened a special world summit in the hope of providing new impetus for better and deeper cooperation in the world.

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