Voices in the World: Recent Episodes
Brian Stiller
The landscape of faith has changed as 25 % of Christians today are Evangelical. Who are they? What is core to their growth? What ideas and movements shape and drive their faith?
As Global Ambassador of this community’s worldwide centre (the World Evangelical Alliance - WEA), Brian Stiller traverses the world literally and through technology, meeting people with ideas and initiatives to mobilize and speak for this community, estimated now to be 650 million.
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My father‘s grandparents came from Sweden last century. Most in Canada can trace their lineage to migrants coming from somewhere. Today’s world is awash in movements of people for a whole number of reasons: war, family, opportunities, jobs, family, faith.
What we often miss is how today’s waves of migration are changing our landscape. Dr. Sam George, himself a migrant, unwraps this phenomenal global movement.
In this episode, Brian speaks with Esme Bower, Director for Church in Community in South Africa. Esme and Brian explore the unique landscape of the evangelical movement in South Africa and the greater African continent.
In this episode, Brian talks to Wissam al-Saliby, an Advocacy Officer working for the World Evangelical Alliance at the United Nations in Geneva. Wissam shares his journey to the UN as well as what it is like to advocate for persecuted evangelicals around the world.
In this episode, Brian speaks to Katharine Hayhoe about climate change and how it impacts every other issue of concern in our world today, and how we can take easy, actionable steps to make a difference.
In this episode, Brian speaks to Thomas Schirrmacher, Secretary General of the WEA. Together they discuss why it is important for Evangelicals to have a world “home”, the function and vision of the World Evangelical Alliance, and how Evangelicals around the world can have a positive impact for the gospel.