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Dispatches from the Global Village

Brian C Stiller writes perspectives as he visits countries around the world, for Dispatches from the Global Village and articles for newspapers and magazines.

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Trouble doesn’t end witness – Venezuela today

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2019/07/03

Venezuela, with the oil wealth of Saudi Arabia, today looks more like Syria, noted a journalist. With the country in free fall, it is hard to imagine how it can last much longer. In daily updates, we listen to multiplying horror stories of no food, empty medicine shelves, stunning numbers of kidnappings, and the hemorrhaging of ten percent of its population in a matter of months.This incredibly beautiful and rich-in-resource Latin American country is the paradigm of ideological delusion,

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06:48

Global Christian Forum

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2019/04/23

Ecumenical has not been a friendly word in my lexicon. In my younger years, our small church, and much of our community was in a defensive mode, somewhat fundamentalist and afraid that if we got involved with “liberal” mainline Protestants, it was the beginning of a slippery slide to a faith lukewarm. This major rift within Protestantism, between a growing Evangelical world (and in my case more specifically Pentecostal) and mainline Protestants had enormous consequences. At stake, so we believed,

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11:59

To Be or Not To Be an Evangelical

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2019/04/08

WEA Global Ambassador Brian Stiller reflects on the term Evangelical. Read this and more at: www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/dispatches A friend wrote, “I no longer call myself an Evangelical.” Thoughtful, well informed but now I suspect feeling embarrassed, he has chosen to avoid a term used globally by hundreds of millions of Christians. For many within shouting distance of U.S. media circles and party politics, the word has become a banner of disrepute. Evangelical is now a word disfigured by

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10:27

The Evangelical Church in Vietnam: Beauty and resilience

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2019/04/08

WEA Global Ambassador Brian Stiller visits Vietnam and reflects on the state of the Church in this beautiful country. Read this and more at: www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/dispatches Aromas from open kitchens scent the night air as I walk the narrow streets of old Hanoi. It’s time for evening dinner: Sidewalk restaurants filled with children and adults spill out their happy chatter, all busy with eating in one of my favourite places in the world. Anthony Bourdain, the recently deceased gourmet globe

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07:55

African Children Singing Us Into Pentecost

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/12/20

There is nothing like a children’s choir to warm the heart. It was the day before Pentecost Sunday and the last day of a conference of African Pentecostals and Charismatics. A choir of South African children, bodies moving in rhythm to a Zulu tune, reminded us of the remarkable stories of unforeseen growth in the church of Africa. People had come from across the continent to the Word and Life Church in Johannesburg, called together by the global movement Empower 21, a fellowship linking Charismatic

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12:54

6 Takeaways from The Future of Evangelicalism in America

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/11/28

At a recent meeting near Chicago, fifty Evangelical leaders of various ministries, ethnicities and churches explored the theme: The Future of Evangelicalism in America. (Six of us from outside of the U.S. were included.) The conveners making no claim to represent a full round of Evangelical views and with no pretense of attempting to arrive at solutions, were courageous and ambitious, even though it was evident that (at best) this was just the beginning of a conversation. While some points might

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11:10

Finding Light In Darkness - The Myanmar Tragedy

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/11/14

As I walked among the glistening gold-plated stupas of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Burma), it was hard to believe that just miles north, a genocide took place masterminded by the country’s military. A people-name once unknown, the Rohingyas, is now a common point of our conversations. But even as we assume the worldwide accusations are self-evident behind the genocide of these ethnic Muslims in the heart of a Buddhist country, complexity rules—a fact of which the small

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09:58

So much for Secular Canada allowing diversity

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/09/05

Trinity Western University, a Canadian liberal arts university, planned to open a law school as part of its vision to prepare Christians to serve in public and civic life. It wasn’t long before their plan triggered the ire of provincial law societies. In the end, this case ended up before the Supreme Court of Canada which ruled that provincial law societies could refuse to admit TWU law grads from practising law. Their ruling was based on their objection to the university’s community covenant: it

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12:02

Did We Find Peace in Assisi?

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/05/22

Peace is hard to come by. Ask John Kerry and his Russian equivalent Sergei Lavrov in their intermittent successes at finding a Syrian cease-fire. In the 20th century 231 million died in wars and conflicts. Even so Stewart Pinker (Harvard) said five years ago, “we may be living in the most peaceful era in our species’ existence,” followed by Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, one year later, that today our world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.” Pinker makes his

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08:57

When is a Heresy a Cult?

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/05/08

Dispatches from the Global Village By Brian Stiller Spiritual movements produce bizarre and often cult-like offshoots. Nowhere is this truer than in Brazil. The explosion of Christian faith in Latin America, and indeed in the world, occurs in an environment where ideas framed by hope, accelerate popularity of some giving influence to self-proclaimed prophets. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is now a world phenomenon. Beginning in the 1970s, its founder Edir Macedo had come to Christian

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09:05

Brazil: A new force in mission

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/03/27

Brazil is huge. A population of two hundred million live in a land mass slightly smaller than the United States or China. It’s Amazon basin, over seven million square kilometers is rich in unexplored terrain, home to more than a third of known species, expansive as “lungs” of the globe, its seeming endless river winds its way from the mountains of Peru, some 6,992 kilometers to the Atlantic Ocean. A country of over one hundred and fifty languages among 450 tribes, this country gives up stories of

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07:14

Unintended Consequences

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/03/08

Dispatches From Brian Stiller - Unintended Consequences In Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes a moment in time in which an idea generates such momentum that it moves forward enabled by its own critical mass. As a snowball builds up size and speed, it moves forward under its own steam. I may have just witnessed a tipping point on Jeju Island, South Korea. Read the rest at: https://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/Communications/Dispatches-from-Brian-Stiller/October-2016/Unintended-Consequences

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10:36

Grace in Vietnam

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2018/03/08

It was love at first sight. Built around seven lakes, Hanoi’s French architecture tells of its colonial past; and food — always, everywhere. Streets, narrow, lined with markets of all kinds. I especially noted meat stalls, workers with cleavers cutting meat or cleaning fish side by side to market gardens and small stores of all kinds. I suspect if you can’t find what you want here, it can’t be found. Hustle. Bustle. Everyone is at work, unless it’s evening; then friends and family eat their meal

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02:55

Brian C Stiller - Global Ambassador for WEA

Dispatches from the Global Village ·

2016/10/12

Brian C Stiller speaks about the changing trends around the world and his world role as Global Ambassador.

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