Dispatches From Brian

09/09/2024

David, my oldest brother, is dead. The news came without surprise. He had been very unwell, and we had had multiple final goodbye visits. But as I sit on the front deck of our summer cottage northe…

09/09/2024

It wasn’t what I expected to see at this year’s national prayer breakfast. A crowd of 1,400 people packed the hall, waiting for the platform guests to arrive: the Prime Minister, the le…

09/06/2024

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“If you can fly a plane in Papua New Guinea (PNG), you can do it anywhere,” a pilot once told me. That is an apt description of this mountainous South Pacific land. Roads are few. To reach most com…

09/06/2024

If you are walking into the City Harvest Church in Singapore, I’d suggest that you hold on to your hat. What you are about to see, hear and experience is a church service that may differ from anyth…

02/12/2024

Harold Janz was as principled a person as I’ve ever met. He was fearless in speaking truth to power, was kind and loyal as a friend, a creative and brilliant writer: one I’d trust with the most important of issues. His love for his family, his Lord and the global church was unmatched. A huge loss. I sorrow today with family and friends. His rich and treasured legacy lives on.

12/21/2023

I never expected that at a global conference in Turkiye called the Future of the Gospel Forum, I would be captivated by a Malaysian who had gone to England early in his life to earn a PhD in micro-…

12/21/2023

From time to time I come across written pieces which so clearly gives a snapshot of global witness. This written by Jenny Lind Schmitt, first published by World Magazine. Faithful among the nations…

12/21/2023

Assemble a few thousand Pentecostals together and you can expect much worship and preaching. Empowered21 (E21), a global network of Pentecostals and Charismatics, held EveryOne, a global event in A…

12/21/2023

There are occasions when a person’s peculiar skills and character add something so remarkable to the world around them that when news comes of their passing, our attention is seized by this loss. S…

09/09/2023

Forty years ago, evangelicals in Canada faced a problem, and because I had just been elected to head up their national association, it became my problem. It was this: since we did not have a Canadi…

09/09/2023

“What will come next?” is the question I’m most often asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine. However, war has its own surprises. Prophetic calculations are often fruitless. Will Putin be overturned b…

09/09/2023

What are we to make of the prayer service which began on February 8 at Asbury University in Kentucky, where students continued in prayer and worship for days? Within the week, thousands arrived to …