In February I was the keynote speaker at the GAiN Academy Europe 2015. This is an international event on media and communication, and I was invited to speak about contemporary culture. Luckily for those not attending, the organisers have put my keynote up on YouTube. This talk fits nicely into my crusade to […]
Just a short note to say: My book is mentioned on the website of the Dutch Council of Churches!
I recently returned from The One Project gathering in San Diego, where I gave a talk about what the future holds for Christians in Europe and the US alike. A longer version of that talk (adjusted for print) just went up on The One Project’s official website. Catch the first few paragraphs here, or download the […]
A chapter written for Bertil Wiklander’s Festschrift, exploring the role of Chaos and Order in Revelation. At the moment the book is not for sale, but here is my chapter:
For the second time in my life I am sitting in hall with hundreds of people in the US, at the One Project. More than a thousand Adventists from all over the world are here to spend two days contemplating how Jesus is, and how they can recommit their lives to him. Wonderful talks, followed […]
Exciting news this week. My PhD thesis has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in their Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus series. It’s for sale on Amazon and is in Google Books!
As part of our communication strategy we have record vlogs our core values: Optimism, Service, Quality of Life. Here’s my (Dutch) vlog on Quality of Life.
I recorded a vlog in an attempt to get more Adventists to be a member of the Dutch Bible Society. It’s in Dutch, naturally.
I wrote this blog for the One project’s daily challenge, they published it on December 30th, 2014. A couple of months ago my wife moved to another country. Don’t worry, she didn’t leave me — at least not permanently. She received a job offer we could not refuse, and for the last months we’ve been […]
Colleague and author dr Reinder Bruinsma recently read and discussed my book Avontuurlijk Wandelen in his weekly blog. I must say I am very honoured by the words he writes. I think my favourite sentence is: Books like that of Tom de Bruin will be warmly welcomed by many readers, because of their fresh perspective on […]
Ik krijg elke dag meer dan tweehonderd e-mails. Het is een wonder dat ik aan werk toekom! Naast die mails worden we allemaal overweldigd met App’jes, sms’jes en Facebookberichten. Om maar niet te praten over de berichten in de krant en op tv. En dan natuurlijk al die Tweets en YouTube-video’s … Daar bovenop de zegen […]
Onderstaande is het eerste hoofdstuk van mijn boek Avontuurlijk wandelen: Onderweg met de Bijbel. Eén van mijn broers heet Paul. Hij is een levensgenieter. Hij heeft altijd tijd voor de leuke dingen in het leven, maar nooit voor de minder leuke kanten. Mijn ouders praten nu nog steeds over het grote wonder dat het antwoord was op […]
Last weekend I spoke in Central London Church. Attempting to get a more personal and relevant application on the parable of the sower, I entitled the sermon ‘Which Type of Ground Are You?”
I was invited to speak at the European One Project gathering in Utrecht. The topic was Present Truth.
Onderstaande is een bewerking van de overdenking die Tom de Bruin hield op de jeugdleidersdag van 2 november. Er is een nieuwe bijbelvertaling in Nederland. Als je niet onder een rots hebt geleefd de afgelopen weken, dan heb je dat wel gemerkt. Er zijn meer dan 60 duizend Bijbels in gewone taal verkocht in de […]
I wrote an article on Mark 2 for Spectrum Magazine, entitled The Plucky Sabbath. Head over there and read it!
Daar sta je dan. Als net begonnen predikant, gewapend met de Schrift, barstend van de academische nuance, vóór het huis van een gezin. Binnen wacht een tweetal jongeren op de bijbelstudie van de predikant. Thuis heb je al hevig nagedacht waar je het over gaat hebben en — nog veel belangrijker — welke bijbel je […]
Often when I am at Newbold College, I preach at the contemporary service. They put videos of their services up on Vimeo. Here’s the sermon I preached on the Sabbath in Hebrews 4.
GAIN//EUROPE is a demonational communication conference. I spoke on communicating in a post-postmodern world. There’s another GAIN//EUROPE in 2015, I will be speaking there again, on Theological Storytelling for the Contemporary World.
If you like what I do and want me to keep doing it, this is an awesome way to support it. My blog posts and videos are free, and will always be free. People need to hear awesome takes on biblical studies. And you guys help me keep it free and feed myself. But I […]