THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
The following article appeared in the Daily Telegraph (UK) on September 2 2009:

WW2: Former evacuees look back
To mark the 70th anniversary of evacuation, hundreds of people gathered at a service in St Paul's cathedral yesterday. To some, it had been an adventure; to others, a lonely and fearful separation. In these moving testimonies, former evacuees recall the day when their lives were altered for ever.

THE PATRIOT LEDGER
The following article appeared in this Boston paper on June 20 2009:

Man recounts his evacuation from England during World War II
Former Milton resident Michael Henderson, the author of “See You After the Duration: The Story of British Evacuees To North America in World War II” recounts the experiences that shaped that book.

Out of the troubles in Northern Ireland have come stories of tragedy and of triumph, stories that appal and stories that inspire. The world was stirred by Gordon Wilson’s words after his daughter was killed in the horrific bombing in Enniskillen on Remembrance Day in 1987. ‘I bear no ill will,’ he said. It was an act that stirred deeper emotions than hate and revenge. Now as Catholics and Protestants learn to put the past behind them another story is emerging that deserves wider recognition.

No Enemy To Conquer was launched at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC on June 2. Its author, Michael Henderson, had given evidence for the setting up of the Institute 25 years earlier and congratulated the Congressionally-funded body for its achievements in such a short time.

An Imam, a Rabbi and Christian leaders spoke at the launch of a new book about forgiveness, held at the St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the City of London, on 13 May. Mike Smith reports:
No enemy to conquer, subtitled Forgiveness in an unforgiving world, by author and journalist Michael Henderson, was commissioned by an American university press, following his earlier books on the theme of forgiveness.

A year ago my brother-in-law, Paul, was given at most two years to live. He was diagnosed with leukaemia.
Now he has just been told officially by his doctor that he is in remission and, if all continues smoothly as expected, he will be cured.
Why the difference? It has all to do with stem cells, which up until then, I must admit, had been for me just something remote which some people somewhere else were arguing over.

GPS – or Sat Nav – as we call it in England is all the rage. When my wife and I rented a car in Los Angeles we found to our surprise that it had GPS already installed. We got to our destination before we had figured out how to make it work.

Change is in the air. Despite the pervasive aura of fear, fed by images of destruction in the Middle East and the economic turmoil buffeting every family, there is an air of optimism, and not only in the United States, since a new American president has taken over. The Economist uses the word ‘optimism’ in the context of ‘America’s awesome power of self-renewal’.

A new publication in Britain, Faith in the Nation, addresses issues which face many of our countries whose religious and racial landscape is changing and where some regard religion as the problem and others see it as the answer.

Publishers Weekly of 15 December has carried an advance review of IofC author Michael Henderson's new book 'No enemy to conquer: forgiveness in an unforgiving world' to be published in February by the Baylor University Press, USA, ISBN-978-1-60258-140-1. The review states: