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Eric Asp

New Civil Society Zine Up and Ready!

2011-11-29

In the second issue of Arseh Sevom’s Civil Society Magazine, called David and Goliath, we asked contributors to tell us what comes after all the unity, after the giant is slain, after the monster is gone? What comes next? It was clearly a difficult question; o

Letter from the Editor

2011-11-23

The term “Arab Spring” has always felt ominous to me. After all, we all know what happened after the short-lived Prague Spring of 1968, which was brutally squashed. As I write this, we read that more than 32 people have been killed in clashes in Cairo’s Tahir

The Accidental Leader Questions for Amsterdam50

2011-11-19

Eric Asp, pastor at Amsterdam50, discusses the struggles of unexpected leadership in the answers to questions from Arseh Sevom. ” When the founder of the project first left, I was asked, together with another young leader from the church, to step into the role

Contributors

2011-11-09

Amal Hamidallah-van Hees (A Letter to an Iranian Woman from Her Arab Friend) is the director of Bridging the Gulf Foundation for human security in the […]

Contributors

2011-03-10

Avery Oslo (Creating the Impossible: The Invisible Network of Britain’s Activist Subculture) began ethnographic research on Scottish Road Protest Culture in 2004. As a part of […]

Killing the Church by Networking

2011-03-09

There are established formulas for church growth which are widely understood and discussed within the Christian community. However, one church in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, challenges many […]