TPM, The Philosophers' Magazine, is publishing a list of the top 50 ideas of the 21st Century submitted by leading thinkers. One on the list is Forgiveness, put forward by the writer Alexander McCall Smith who before becoming an international best-selling author was professor of medical law at the university of Edinburgh. He says that it is an idea that has come alive in the first decade of the century.

This article appeared in the Boston Herald on December 26 2010. You can read it online here>>

The November issue of Reform, the monthly of the United Reformed Church in the UK, carries a profile of Michael Henderson written by Mike Smith.

September 11 2010 by Correspondent for The Liverpool Echo
Under the headline USA evacuation changed my life, Gerald Henderson tells the story of his and his brother Michael's evacuation from England to the USA as young boys during World War II. The article appears in The Liverpool Echo, 11 September 2010.
Liverpool Hope University honorary fellow Gerald Henderson recalls how being evacuated to the USA changed his life

SEVENTY years ago this month, as an 8-year-old, along with my 6-year-old brother Gerald, I set out on a journey across the submarine-infested wartime Atlantic that was to transform our lives.

THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL
The following article appeared in the Lakeville Journal on July 29 2010
A time to remember
Guest Commentary — Michael Henderson

The following article appeared in Mature Times on 21 May 2005:
Many children found that evacuation to a safer place in the war meant travelling thousands of miles to another continent. Michael Henderson’s has written the moving story of British Evacuees who went to North America in World War II in his book “See you after the duration”.

Recently, the women of the American Women's Club in London were fortunate to have as a speaker, Michael Henderson, the author of See You After The Duration. He shared with us the details of a part of British history that was new to me. A little background information first. As Britain stood on the brink of invasion by the Germans in WWII, almost 2 million children were evacuated from several large cities, primarily London, along with 100,000 teachers as their guardians, to the countryside to live in order to avoid the danger of bombings.

When I think about South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup and the country’s continuing challenges, particularly with the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, a white supremacist, I am reminded of the courage of two South African friends of mine, black and white, who long before many others were pioneers of truth and reconciliation and forgiveness.

MICHAEL HENDERSON is a freelance journalist and the author of ten books, the latest being No Enemy To Conquer - Forgiveness in An Unforgiving World and See You After the Duration - the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II. He has been a TV presenter, a broadcaster and for more than fifty years worked for peace and understanding in some 25 countries.