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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read more(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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreAny 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…
Read moreThe Dutch will go orange-crazy this coming Monday. Canals in Amsterdam will overflow with boats crammed with orange-clad merrymakers. Music will fill streets festooned with orange…
Read more(REVIEW) Jan Jekielek’s “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” is difficult to read. Not because it is…
Read moreFreedom – of speech or of worship, from want or from fear – was both celebrated and contested on various fronts this week, reminding us that the…
Read moreEver since Constantine in the fourth century, nations and empires have been tempted to define themselves as ‘Christian’. But can a nation or an empire be…
Read moreThe Recipe for Tomorrow We can feed a growing and warming planet without magic bullets or radical upheaval. How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide….
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