globalChristian bloggers are all Christians who have traveled the world and spent some time trying to understand God's world in all its complexity. GlobalChristian Bloggers are friends of the Global Engagement Network and its work. All the bloggers are volunteers who have a passion to dialogue with others — Christians and not — about the fact that we seek a global vision because we worship a global God. GlobalChristians want to make their faith relevant to the most difficult places and issues in the world. If you want to become one, contact us at
Amy Rowe, GlobalChristian Blogger
Amy Rowe edits the book blog at GlobalChristian.org and was Director of Country Programs at the Institute for Global Engagement until August 2007.
Jennifer Vollett-Krech, GlobalChristian Blogger
Jennifer Vollett-Krech has six years experience working in emergency international health, leads a prayer group on Darfur and blogs at GlobalChristian in her spare time.
The 2008 Global Leadership Forum, September 26-27, will feature conversations among leading evangelical thinkers and representatives from other faith traditions on the diverse challenges facing evangelicalism in this new century. Read more »
Speaking at the Council for Europe on October 9, the president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul, called for changes to a law on "insulting Turkishness" that has damaged Turkey's bid to join the European Union. Known as "Article 301," the law has been used to persecute writers, journalists, scholars, and religious minorities. For example, as reported by Compass Direct, two Turkish converts to Christianity, Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal, are currently on trial for "insulting Turkishness." Others accused under the law have included Turkish Armenian editor Hrant Dink (who in January was murdered by an ultra-nationalist because of his views on the deaths of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915), and the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Please pray that president Gul's acknowledgement of the need for change in the law helps move Turkey towards full embrace of religious freedom and human rights. Read more »
The 2008 Global Leadership Forum, September 26-27, will feature conversations among leading evangelical thinkers and representatives from other faith traditions on the diverse challenges facing evangelicalism in this new century. Read more »
