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The passing of Kevin Starr, the notable historian of California, is already being observed with predictable political correctness. For his series of popular surveys, beginning with the 1973 volume...

The awarding of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan has provoked enthusiasm and dismay since its announcement on October 13. Dylan himself has indicated distaste for...

Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa has been a global symbol of mercy and charity embodied in the selfless worship of God. Her renown is...

Christianity and Freedom, Vol. II, Contemporary Perspectives edited by allen d. hertzke & timothy samuel shah cambridge, 518 pages, $145.50 This volume accompanies another substantial collection, Christianity and Freedom:...

On Friday, March 4, sixteen people were murdered in a terrorist attack at a nursing home in Aden, the main city on the coast of southern Yemen. The dead...

Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicagoby heath w. carteroxford, 278 pages, $35.00 This historical study by an assistant professor at the Lutheran-affiliated Valparaiso...

On Saturday, June 6, Pope Francis ­visited Sarajevo, the ­capital of partitioned Bosnia-Hercegovina. Although treated by international media as a typical papal tour, the event strengthened the potential of...

American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam  by Christine Leigh Heyrman Hill & Wang, 352 pages, $28.00 The author of this book, a professor of history at...

On September 23, at a mass in Washington, DC, Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize Blessed Junípero Serra (1713-84), the Franciscan founder of the Spanish missions in California. Serra...

For some time, an argument has been made that the liberal left, in refusing to examine the problems of Islam, has betrayed its Enlightenment roots. That is, while secular,...

Mecca is threatened. The city is the sacred center of attention for all Muslims. It is the location of the qibla, or direction of prayer, and the destination for...

Most of the world’s Christians—as well as many non-believers—celebrated the birth of Jesus on December 25. Members of the Egyptian Coptic, Ethiopian, most Slavic Orthodox, and Georgian Orthodox churches,...

In May 2014, I attended an interfaith conference in Kosovo where I met Janis Priede, an associate professor in the department of Oriental Studies at the University of Latvia,...

With the publication of Trotsky: A Biography , Robert Service, a professor of Russian history at Oxford and an outstanding authority on the Russian Revolution, has completed a biographical...

In 1981, a year after the death of ex-Yugoslavia’s communist dictator, Josip Broz Tito, events in Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Hercegovina, began to stir the Christian world. Six...