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Monthly Archive for September, 2011

Second@s Plus, a lobby group in Switzerland consisting of mostly Muslim immigrants, demand that Switzerland removes the cross from the nation’s flag. They will run a campaign in October against this Christian symbol which they consider unfit in today’s multicultural Switzerland. They consider the flag offensive to Muslims. This has caused a heated debate. But […]

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9 million people live in Sweden. Approximately 300 000 Swedes go hunting every year and they shoot 100 000 moose. Moose hunters need to know what a moose looks like. If they don’t know, you certainly don’t want to be around during hunting season. Your success as a hunter depends on knowing your target. One can only […]

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There is a global shortfall of about 1.8 billion good formal jobs, according to Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup.* That is nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Many people live in the insecure informal job sector, which often is filled with survival activities in the form a subsistence business. Most people hope for a […]

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9/11 ten years later

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global network of churches and international organizations in 128 countries. WEA is serving a constituency of 600 million people. WEA has asked me to make a statement and a video on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The destructive act of 9/11 is outnumbered daily by small […]

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One can identify 3 essential activities which have helped to catalyze and grow the global Business as Mission (BAM) movement: 1. Developing the concept,  2. Spreading the concept and 3. Applying the concept. Of course one cannot credit just one book, event, person or organisation with the current interest in Business as Mission amongst Christians […]

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