New Video and News of the Week
Oh Canada! Who was Nicholas Ridley? Italian PM gets an Award. Hate at Harvard Divinity School? Lausanne conference in Seoul.
This Week
As you all read this, I should be on my way back from Canada, after visiting Wycliffe College in Toronto and Crandall University in Moncton. It was a great time, I had wonderful hosts, met some terrific people, and heard about some positive things happening in the churches and colleges of Canada.
New Video
Discover the incredible journey of Nicholas Ridley, a pivotal figure in the English Reformation. I explain Ridley's profound influence in transitioning England to Protestantism, his roles as a theologian, bishop, and martyr. A quick overview of Ridley's advocacy against papal supremacy, his collaboration on the first Book of Common Prayer, his treatise on the Eucharist, his role in the vestment controversy, and of course his martyrdom in Oxford on 16 October 1555.
News of the World this Week
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni received the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York City. "For me the West is more than a physical place. By the word “West” we do not simply define countries by specific geographical location but as a civilization built over the centuries with the genius and sacrifices of many. The West is a system of values in which the person is central, men and women are equal and free and, therefore, the systems are democratic, life is sacred, the state is secular and based on the rule of law.”
How Harvard Divinity School Teaches Hate? Reformed Jewish business Robert Friedman enrolled at HDS, expecting it to be a tolerant place, instead, he opines: “I don’t think of myself as a naive person. But as my time at Harvard Divinity School unfolded, I was shocked to discover there was a hidden mission in some corners of the school: a fervent opposition to the existence of Israel to the point of encouraging its elimination.”
Lausanne 2024 in Seoul. Trevin Wax reports from Seoul, Korea: “The Seoul Statement builds on the good work of those previous documents while addressing several challenges facing the church today. The preface reiterates the need for urgency in evangelism and calls for the church to “nurture the faith and discipleship” of believers by responding biblically to “trending social values and to distortions of the gospel, which have threatened to erode the sincere faith of Christians and to destroy the unity and fellowship of the church of the Lord Jesus.”