Foreign Affairs
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Ecumenism and Russian State Power
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department of external relations and a frequent…
Fatal Revival?
A half century ago, a little book, titled “Kyrosed och secularisering” (Church Customs and Secularization) appeared in…
In Belgium, Two Types of Bishops
For at least half a century, the revival of Catholicism in its traditional heartlands has been a…
Is Latvia Putin’s New Target?
In May 2014, I attended an interfaith conference in Kosovo where I met Janis Priede, an associate…
Medieval Golden Age, Modern Barbarism
Earlier this year, as conflict raged in northern Syria, two professors, one Lebanese and the other American,…
Notre Dame Honors Russia’s New Martyrs
It’s sometimes hard to tell, this time of year, but there’s more going on at Notre Dame…
The Thirty Years’ War in Italy
The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty…
Muslim Scholars vs. ISIS
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, “More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open…
Why Scotland and Ireland Went Different Ways
I In St. Andrews on Thursday, September 18, I voted in the Scottish referendum and the following…
#WeAreN
As a kid growing up in Evangelical churches, I would occasionally hear about the ultimate in Christian…
Tocqueville in Arabia
Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…
Meeting the Contemporary Challenge
On Thursday, September 4th, Wolfhart Pannenberg, the greatest theological mind of German Protestantism in the second half…
We Must Fight ISIS with More than Missiles
The following testimony was given before Sub-Committees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 10, 2014.…
Remembering the Great Fouad Ajami
In a year replete with devastating news, the June 22 death of Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami…
From Cain to Isis
The radical Islamic movement ISIS is more radical than Islamic. It is true, of course, that this…
