Back in 2004, evangelical educator Richard Mouw brought a message of friendship and reconciliation to Mormon America, speaking to a…
Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
American politics
U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold it's 11th annual conference this Wednesday, April 28, on "U.S.…
Obama’s rapprochement with U.S. Muslim groups
Max Fisher at the Atlantic Wire has compiled a set of articles and blog posts around the Web dealing with…
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
In my opening post, I suggested that a second assumption underpinning the Chicago Report is that American foreign policy should…
Sovereignty and sacrifice in American politics
In The Utopian, Yale Law professor Paul W. Kahn argues that the discourse and imaginary of secular political theory fail…
Christianity and healthcare reform
Sarah Posner, of The American Prospect, has written an article about how some Christian, non-profit groups, known as health-care-sharing ministries…
Tariq Ramadan returns to the U.S.
Last Thursday, Tariq Ramadan addressed his first American audience in over five years. Before a crowd that filled the historic…
Islam and terrorism
In my previous post, I suggested that one of the latent assumptions underpinning the Chicago Report is that terrorism is…
The de-protestantization of the Supreme Court?
In light of the recent news that Justice Stevens will be retiring, the New York Times Week in Review notes…
“Sorry comforters” and the new Natural Law
I read the Chicago Council Task Force Report, “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy,” as…