The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking,” two seemingly separate discourses, have become interwoven in recent years, castigating…
Trafficking as terror
violence
Ekklesia: An introduction
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
Becoming nothing
An acquisitive mind would no doubt insist that the measure of man (and of everyone and everything else) is growth.…
A gesture was all there was
Then everyone started laughing, letting the tense silence, the fear, and the anger dissolve, and I thought, is this all…
Democracy and the secular predicament
In the United States, the Middle East is almost always presented as a problem to be solved—most significantly, the problem…
René Girard dies at 91
Earlier this month, Stanford University announced that prominent faculty member René Girard had died after a long illness.
Preaching after the Trayvon Martin verdict
How can religion aid or complicate the ways in which people make sense of the trial of George Zimmerman and…
The discourse of Islamic militancy
Over at ISLAMiCommentary, TIF contributor Mbaye Lo sees a clear disconnect and calls for a retrospective analysis in the wake…
Death in the Middle East: What happens next?
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya…
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…