Category: Columns

  1. Five years of keeping Southasian hope alive

    Marking half a decade of cross-border solidarity, the Southasia Peace Action Network’s recent anniversary event highlighted the region’s enduring resilience, the urgent challenges faced by Gen…

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  2. Former UN expert: Vietnam’s human rights record should be holistically assessed

    VOV.VN – The prominent outcomes in Vietnam’s socio-economic development represent achievements worthy of international recognition. However, to fully honor its international commitments, the country must continue…

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  3. European Evangelicals Draw A Clear Distinction From Their American Counterparts

    (ANALYSIS) The European Evangelical Alliance, which represents some 23 million evangelical Christians on the continent, recently released an important report “European Evangelicals in Public Life: Our…

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  4. Book Review – Towards Hope by Eleanor Nesbitt

    Towards Hope by Eleanor Nesbitt Universe Press 2026 Wendy Dossett This new volume of poetry, by respected scholar of Sikhi and well-known Quaker, Eleanor Nesbitt, offers…

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  5. Speaking truth to power

    Recent protests in Ukraine against government decisions affecting key anti-corruption and defence institutions may look like dangerous dissent undermining national unity and the war effort. In…

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  6. Celebrating interdependence

    The 250th anniversary of American independence today is a timely occasion to reflect on the human journey from dependence to independence and to interdependence – among individuals, communities and nations. Many Americans…

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  7. A Christian Approach to International Relations: Robert Joustra’s “Christ & Covenant in Global Politics”

    In response to the failure of many theories that predicted a decline in religious observance and increase in global secularization, there is now increased attention to the role…

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  8. How Evangelicals Helped Shape Indigenous Reconciliation In Canada

    (ANALYSIS) Evangelicals and indigenous peoples’ rights are not often put in the same sentence, but in Canada, they are deeply intertwined. June 21 is Canada’s national Indigenous…

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  9. Secularism: Universal to the West, Provincial to Everywhere Else

    In the West many long-stable electoral patterns are disappearing. Centrist political parties have eroded in Germany, France, the UK, and elsewhere, and are being supplanted by…

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  10. What Makes a Nation Great?

    Any nation, big or small, can become a great nation. Some nations think they are great, or strive to restore ‘greatness’.  But what really makes a…

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