Expressing Christian Faith in Today's Society

SIMON BURTON-JONES
How do we cope with the complex demands of modern life?

Most of us want to do the right thing with our lives, but how do we cope with the complex demands of modern life?

This website expresses a deep yearning of mine: to take the beautiful message of the Gospel about Jesus

Jacob's Ladder And The Secret Lives Of Families

The stories of nations are told through their kings and queens and rulers; ordinary people rarely get a look in, especially the further back you go in history. But the origin of God’s people is told through a family,

Honey, I Shrunk Our God

Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans is the pinnacle of his theology and the view from chapter 8 is out of this world.Who will separate us from the love of God? he asks, and then lists a series of calamities that cannot get in the way. Poverty, trauma, oppression,

Talking With Strangers

Recently, I found the only available table in a small café of an independent bookshop and paused to

The Secret Life Of Fans

A fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan: you must be a devil with the ladies.This put down of Comic Book Guy

In Praise Of Volunteers

The great cultural commentator of our times, Homer Simpson, once said:

Simon Interviews Eva Schloss

From Freedom To Betrayal

Read Also The Bystander
Eva Geiringer was born in Austria, and shortly after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands. While there, she lived in the same apartment block as Anne Frank, and the girls, only a month apart in age, were sometimes playmates from ages 11 to 13, at which time both went into hiding from the Nazis. In May 1944, the Jewish family was captured by the Nazis, and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps. Her father and brother did not survive the ordeal, but she and her mother were freed in 1945 by Soviet troops. They returned to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and during this time, she and her mother renewed their friendship with Otto Frank, who was at that time contending with the loss of his wife and children, and the discovery of his daughter Anne's diary. Eva continued her schooling and then studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. She then traveled to England to study photography for a year. While there, she met and married Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany who had been living in Israel, and the couple subsequently settled in England.
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