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James Wellman
Victims, Syria, and the Contagion of ViolenceViolence is used to solve violence, and now we’ve seen it in an endless series of historical and contemporary incidents that violence nearly always begets more violence.
Bob Seidensticker
No Resting on Laurels: Vague New Laws about Religious LibertyToday is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case Abington v. Schempp, in which an eight-to-one majority declared that school-sponsored Bible reading was unconstitutional.
Ellen Painter Dollar
Navigating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A ReviewDale Hanson Bourke's recently released The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Tough Questions, Direct Answers provides a compassionate and well-informed guide to issues in the Middle East.
S.L. Whitesell
Sponsoring a Child Feels Great, but Does It Work?University of San Francisco economist Bruce Wydick researches the effectiveness of Compassion International and similiar child-sponsorship agencies.
Yasmeen Nizamy
Empowered Women in the Age of the HaremPre-modern women (in Egypt in particular and the Middle East in general) were granted rights that modern women strive to acquire in many of these communities.
Terry Mattingly
Southern Baptists Without (Many) Baptisms?Local churches reported 314,959 baptisms in 2012, a sharp 5.5 percent downturn from 2011. Baptisms have declined six out of the last ten years, falling to the SBC’s lowest number since 1948.
Roger Olson
"Hitlerland": Could It Happen Here?Most Americans like to think what happened in Germany in the 1930s was somehow unique and that we are immune to such abuses of power.
Egad, me on a plane, again…pray for me!
Beers & Hymns: A Partnership of Pub and Parish
Some Catholic Countries More Accepting of Homosexuality than U.S.
The Family Devotional, Reinvented
Jessica Rey On Bathing Suits: “Who Says It Has To Be Itsy Bitsy?”
Nine Lessons for New Converts/Reverts to Islam
Killing Your Child for Volleyball
Speaking of Obama as Bush 44
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