...Since then, other evangelicals have begun articulating their own visions for the future of evangelical Christianity. Senior managing editor of Christianity Today Mark Galli, for instance, both agrees and disagrees...
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
by Craig Calhoun...party—and which outsiders like the US government dismiss at their peril. Pakistan was more disrupted by partition than India, more radically a new creation with the instabilities that implied. It...
Religious freedom between truth and tactic
by Samuel Moyn...in the minority—as in the United States—rather than a general principle or “thesis.” (Leo XIII proceeded this way, for instance, in first taking note of American Catholicism in his encyclical...
Comparing China and India
by Peter van der Veer...interactions that have constituted our object of study. One can, for instance, want to study church-state relations in India and China, but not without reflecting critically on why one would...
Being mother/being God
...and whose bond with that people affects God’s inner life. For instance, the relationship between God and the people of Israel in their formative years is imagined in rabbinic texts...
Beyond the split
by Nicole Greenfield...that have led to the recent split, media outlets should be wary of how pundits characterize those variances in belief. For instance, the New York Times stated that the debate...
The death of secular democracy in Pakistan?
by Mark Juergensmeyer...militants who were barricaded in the mosque, riots broke out throughout Pakistan. A series of suicide bombings were aimed at government installations and Shi’a religious sites. Some of the most...
German courts inhospitable to Muslim women
by Charles GelmanOver at altmuslimah.com, Sara Ludin writes that in numerous instances, the German court system has shown itself negligent at best, and vindictive at worst, in trying cases brought by Muslim...
Underestimating the force of the New Evangelicals in the public sphere
...the air, shouting their agreement. The plebiscite was instated by President Juan Manuel Santos, a recently minted Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Hopes for the ratification of an historic peace agreement...
The geopolitics of the “shithole”
Donald Trump’s utterance of the phrase “shithole countries” caused great national consternation. Dick Durbin, for instance, was sure no “president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak.”...