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Failure to Grasp the Distinct Character and History of Eastern Christianity is Compromising Our Understanding of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s often results in non-Western convert communities, such as in sub-Saharan Africa and South Korea, being completely ignored). This conflation ignores the very real history of conquest and occupation that occurred between Western and Eastern Christendom, in which the West has almost always been the aggressor, that stands as one of the foundations of modern Eastern Christian identity. For example, the 1204 Sack of Constantinople by Crusaders, so piv…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…verse. Weick searches through the flotsam of our postmodern consumerist world for signs of his presence. It is comforting, even pleasurable, to find signs. We love realizing there is an arrow hidden in the FedEx logo, or that the eastern coast of South America fits snugly into the western coast of Africa. We want to know there is order, even if that order is malevolent. Satan, New World Order, Illuminati—any order is better than none. This is why,…

Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters

By Frederick Clarkson

…y on a range of issues: from the fight for fairness in apartheid era South Africa to child labor abuses by Asian suppliers of Nike and the Gap; from Hershey’s African cocoa supplies to child sexual exploitation issues in major international hotel chains, as well as a host of other issues. ICCR often cooperates with major institutional investors in the responsible investor movement such as the AFL-CIO, the New York City Pension Fund, and others. In…

Massacre in Mindanao: The Irresistible Urge to Blame Religion

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…o assimilate minorities whose very existence challenges not just the state but its ethos and its Ilustrado (nationalist elites centered in Luzon and ruling from Manila with fear, but not concern, for their Southern citizens). You may not read much about the Southern Philippines but news, and newsworthy developments, will continue in the absence of headlines from American or British media….

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…ng to the Washington Post. As Religion Dispatches has previously reported, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is seeking a waiver from the Trump administration to allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a social welfare agency that is a major player in the state’s foster care program, to discriminate against non-Christians such as Jews and Muslims. The Greenville News reports that a Jewish woman was turned away as a potential foster mentor for Miracle Hill…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…hristian Worldview”? It was at an event sponsored by the CEO Roundtable of South Carolina last month that DeMint proposed his litmus test for public school teachers. CEO doesn’t stand for chief executive officer—it stands for Christian Executive Organization, its president, Josh Kimbrell, told me in an interview shortly afterwards. Kimbrell, a banker by training who called DeMint “my dear friend,” said his organization was not a Tea Party group (a…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…too little too late. How can this be? How can all those people, North and South, work as hard as they can, together, and still not have it be enough? Because more has to change. Frankly, everything must change. One thing that could derail this momentous agreement among the wise and weathered people of the world is the threat of terrorism. The lead news stories all these last ten days have been San Bernardino or Chicago or the French election, mov…

Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…el the event which had been locally organised by a group of members in the South London area. The Adventist Church strongly subscribes to a belief in freedom of speech. This also includes the freedom to hold different views. The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to minister to all men and women in the spirit of Jesus, recognising that every human being is valuable in the sight of God. As a Bible believing Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…endorsement of religion. Many of the bill’s critics doubt the veracity of Southerland’s secular sentiment and it’s clear that many of his admirers actually support the bill out of a desire to see the state accept Biblical religion. Yet there’s no explicit evidence that Southerland’s intentions are inherently religious, and legislative intent is one part of a key judicial test of whether a law violates the Establishment clause. Still, some of the…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…en Greenwich Street and the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the south, the building of which in the 1940s destroyed most of the last residential buildings via eminent domain. In the 1960s, the building of the World Trade Center took care of much of the rest. The tunnel to the south, the tower to the north, but even in the 1980s, there were still “pockets” of human-scaled buildings dating back to the early 19th century. The 9/11 attacks…