Author Archives: Bert Hielema

 THE WEATHER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY……… We hear weather announcements in every newscast, always preceded by a commercial. Nothing new in that. Frankly we are bombarded with news trivia, while the real news, something that will lead to a … Continue reading →

RELIGION AND ME. I admit it: I go to church each Sunday morning, done that since I was 4 years old, when I lived in the Netherlands’ most northerly City, Groningen, a university town since 1614, now with some 30,000 … Continue reading →

EVERYTHING IN OUR WORLD IS FAKE. Everything in our Western world is fake. Nothing is real. It’s different elsewhere. My wife and I spent some time in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Some 30 years ago, … Continue reading →

ANOTHER SIGN: THE FINAL REFORMATION. Years, no, decades ago, in the late fifties and early sixties of the previous century, when our family lived in St. Catharines, Ontario, there was an air of spiritual renewal hanging under the skies in … Continue reading →

A NATION DIVIDED: A WORLD IN PERIL   Concordia parvae res crescent, Discordia maximae dilabuntur. A Latin phrase, meaning: “As concord makes small things grow, discord brings the greatest to ruin”. Jesus twice echoed this very truth: “Any kingdom divided … Continue reading →

DEATH: THE LAST ENEMY. There is a new book out: The survival of the Riches. I read a review of it in Civis Mundi, a highbrow Dutch monthly magazine, a free electronic periodical of Social Philosophy and Culture, which my brother Drewes … Continue reading →