Could there be anything more American than flying to a remote and impoverished place with no goal other than a…
Enchanted complicity
world affairs
Rethinking that word “evangelical”
Professor Marcia Pally aptly describes the evangelical polyphony of our time. Despite the dreadful habit of newspapers of using the term…
Evangelicals who have left the right
Post-election reporting that 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney got little attention in the news because most…
The new faces of the European far-right
With the ascent of Marine Le Pen to the head of the National Front and her growing popularity in the…
The science of people power: An interview with Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp is the foremost strategist of nonviolent social change alive today. He holds a doctorate in political theory from…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
As National Research Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Charles Villa-Vicencio was intimately involved in the historic…
Mapping religious landscapes
This summer in Kenya I was able to observe one such community health asset mapping project in the informal settlement…