O Presidente Barak Obama se refere em seu discurso inaugural sobre a confiança necessária entre o governo e o povo. A questão da confiança - nas relações humanas e na economia mundial - tornou-se central para a forma sob a qual o mundo deve funcionar. Vozes poderosas estão dizendo isso.

Mike Lowe Veinte años después del "otoño de las naciones", cuando los regímenes comunistas en Europa central y oriental colapsaron, el mayor logro ha sido el resurgimiento de la confianza.

Nous assistons ces temps-ci au 20ème anniversaire de « l’automne des nations », quand les régimes communistes à travers l’Europe centrale et de l’est se sont effondrés les uns après les autres grâce à la mobilisation populaire.

Twenty years after the ‘autumn of nations’, when communist regimes across central and eastern Europe collapsed, the greatest achievement has been the re-growth of trust.

PPaul Williams writes about the adventures of learning to trust in God over many decades.

President Barak Obama referred in his inaugural address to the necessary trust between government and the people. The issue of trust—in human relationships and in the global economy—has become central to the way the world should work. Powerful voices are saying so.

A talk by Jean Brown given at Cliff College, Derbyshire, UK on 14 June 2008.

A Leeds Member of Parliament from one of the most religiously diverse constituencies in Britain, two Nigerian ex-militiamen who used to lead rival gangs and now campaign for peace, a Lebanese civil rights lawyer from Beirut, and an Australian peace campaigner were keynote speakers at a weekend conference on trust-building, organised by Initiatives of Change, 14-15 June. Douglas O’Kane has sent this report.

“Love will not sustain marriage; marriage will sustain love.” – Bonhoeffer

At a wedding in July, 2004 the following advice was offered. It is a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer at his niece’s wedding. Bonhoeffer wrote from a Nazi concentration camp, prior to his hanging in April, 1945. “Love will not sustain marriage; marriage will sustain love.” Not a trendy idea, but one worth pondering.

“Mental compatibility is as important as physical compatibility.”