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Measuring Integration
What efforts are being made to measure and facilitate the integration of migrants to Europe? EU policy efforts towards encouraging migrant integration rely upon four major areas of social policy. The...
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Resident Evil: Migration and Human Trafficking
Jennifer Roemhildt Tunehag throws the spotlight on one of the most pressing issues in contemporary Europe Despite the abolition of the slave trade centuries ago, people are still bought and sold in...
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Vista 11: Urbanisation and European Mission
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. Psalms 46:4 Some time ago I stumbled across an article with an intriguing title: “Finding and...
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“Theologizing” the City in Europe
The unprecedented phenomenon of urbanization since the European Industrial Revolution has gone global, and shows no sign of letting up. Today, more than half of humanity is in, or within the domain of,...
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Aspects of Urban Mission in Europe
Did you know Europe’s historic cities are only three per cent of the world’s land mass, and could comfortably fit inside South Africa? Nevertheless, European cities have had a disproportionately...
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2011 England and Wales Census shows drop in religious affliation
A quarter of residents in England and Wales profess no religion, according to statistics released today from the 2011 census. This is up 10% from the 2001 census. In Wales, nearly a third (32%) say...
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New voices in European Mission
The latest edition of Encounters Mission Journal from Redcliffe College features articles by some of the Postgraduate MA students studying at Redcliffe. Several have a specifically European focus: In...
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Vista Issue 12: Missional in Europe
EDITORIAL Neologisms:Necessary but Dangerous In a rapidly changing world one of the ways we make sense of the changes around us is by inventing new words (neologisms) to describe the new in terms of...
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“Excarnation”: an interview with Mike Frost
What does it mean for a church to be ‘mission-shaped’, ‘missionary’, or ‘missional’? Each of these terms tries to express something important about the nature of the church as a community of believers...
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Vista Issue 13: The State of Europe
I was driving at night along the motorway in the UK recently and was faced with two distinct challenges. Quite suddenly it began to rain very heavily. So heavily, in fact, that my windscreen wipers...
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The State of Europe:
Time to write an obituary or imagine a new beginning? Writing a book about Europe is not the best way to boost your pension contributions in the current climate. . It seems that precious few people...
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Vista 14: The State of Europe revisited
Editorial: A Matter of Perspective Much of what is written about Europe is written “from the centre” and represents the viewpoint of those that are closest to the European institutions and/or the...
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Europe: A matter of perspective
Over the next few days we will be posting four perspectives on Europe, in response to the ‘outside’ view given in Vista 13. The first is from Jeff Fountain, who calls us to remember the values which...
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Europe: A matter of perspective – 2
PERSPECTIVE 2 : RE-IMAGINING GOSPEL ENGAGEMENT IN EUROPE DAVID KERRIGAN The last issue of Vista (Vista 13, April 2013) contained naturally, a number of emphases on the economic and political crisis in...
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Europe – a matter of perspective – 3
PERSPECTIVE 3 : DISCIPLE THE NEXT GENERATION OR PERISH HERVIN FUSHEKATI There are two main observations that come to mind as Albania, an eastern European country thinks about the EU. The secular...
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Europe – a matter of perspective – 4
Our final ‘perspective’ comes from Jim Memory who is co-editor of Vista, and course leader for Redcliffe’s MA in European Mission and Intercultural Christianity. PERSPECTIVE 4 : SPANISH LESSONS JIM...
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Vista 15: On reflection
The last edition of Vista highlighted that one person’s viewpoint alone however well informed, can never give a true picture of what is happening; particularly in a continent as diverse as Europe. What...
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Crucial Issues for Eurpoean Mission and Theology
If you are working in mission in Europe, what are the issues you need to understand? Redcliffe College is offering the MA module Crucial Issues for European Mission and Theology as a stand alone course...
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Vista 16: Losing my religion: Spirituality and Religion in Europe
Hardly a month goes by without some media report about the slow demise of Christianity in Europe. Certainly many sociologists continue to hold to the secularization thesis which predicts the inevitable...
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Spirituality and Religion in Europe: Philip Hughes
For some years, a number of scholars, such as Linda Woodhead and Paul Heelas (2005) and David Tacey (2000), have been arguing that the world, or at least the Western world, is going through a spiritual...
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