EEA Newsletter October 2013 - General Assembly
- NEWSLETTERS
- October 18, 2013
Several things have been on my heart and mind these last several weeks. Scattered thoughts that I’ve been working to try to put together and make some sort of sense of it all. Here are some of things that I have been processing. Have you ever heard or thought about Macroassault, Microassault, Microinsult, Microinvalidation. These terms were used in the Zoom Café. According to minority groups, this is what they feel living in Europe.
READ MOREChosen or forced distance. Most of us have never spent any time thinking about the agreed cultural distance in formal and informal settings. Sociologists can tell us within centimetres what it is in Sweden and what it is in Albania. The social distance is different in each country.
READ MOREIn all strands of society life has come to a screeching halt. What economists feared, suddenly came true in a way they could not have imagined. Experts had been warning for some time that the market was overheating. They also said that, in contrast to the financial crisis in 2008, there was no leverage left to fight a new crisis, by lowering interest rates which are already at 0% or even negative or going more into debt as many nations are already indebted to breaking point.
READ MORE75 years of peace in Europe (?) On 8 May we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. An amazing time lies behind us, lies behind Europe. It still lives among us with many contemporary witnesses. There has hardly ever been such a time in conflict-ridden Europe.
READ MOREYour Kingdom come – A decade of holistic Disciple Making
This was the topic of the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance in Jakarta. The week was very inspiring and gave a lot of food for thought and further action. I only wish there had been more time to wrestle with the topics addressed from stage around the table.
READ MOREWouldn’t it be great to have an application which would turn our thoughts into script at the rate of 100 words a minute? Fascinating? Really? Creepy? Probably! Is it possible? Facebook promises such an application within the next two years!
READ MOREThe Evangelical Alliance was originally created in London in 1846. A number of founding members were representing European countries. The European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) was founded in 1951. The EEA exists to foster unity and evangelical identity and provide a voice and platform to 23 million European evangelical Christians. The mission of the EEA is to CONNECT for com-mon purpose, EQUIP for integral mission and REPRESENT with a united voice. It is a grassroots movement from all Protestant traditions present in 36 European countries. The Brussels office of the EEA promotes active citizenship of its constituency and represents it to the European Institutions. The EEA is part of the World Evangelical Alliance (www.worldea.org)
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