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December 2015

December 21, 2015

The Witness of Larycia Hawkins: Too Much Solidarity, Not Enough Clarity

Last Tuesday, political science associate professor Larycia Hawkins was placed on administrative leave by Wheaton...

December 10, 2015

Advent’s Lesson: Redemption Ain’t All Cyrus and Second Temples

If you were in peril of your life, with your last hope slipping away, and...

December 07, 2015

Islam, Reality, and Renewal

Anyone feeling a little desperate to see the connection between Islam and terrorism parsed intelligently...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

ISIS Should Get Its Own Patheos Channel

ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, preaches mainly to the choir. As Robert Evans observes in Cracked, its...

November 17, 2015

A Humble Plug for Refugees

Last night in a Facebook PM session, my friend Mohammed told me that he recently...

November 16, 2015

Jean Ousset: The Wit and Wisdom of A Wingnut

In the days before e-mail, dashing off a few words to a friend or a...

November 14, 2015

Contra Mindy Selmys: Anger Isn’t Always Hatred

In Mesa, Arizona, three days after al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center, an armed man...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Eid al-Adha for the Deaf and Dumb

It was not, initially, my intention to remain all but ignorant of the Turkish language....

September 17, 2015

Pope Francis and the Barbarians

Eager to glimpse the big picture of Francis’ pontificate? Frustrated connecting the dots from soundbyte...

September 14, 2015

For Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish Earworm

Being Jewish isn’t always a picnic. I got my first inkling of this when I...

September 08, 2015

Pope Francis, Refugees, and the Big Levitical Beach Party

What irks me most about the guy is his grin, which is roguish, the mark...

September 06, 2015

Merkel, Orban and Europe’s Christian Soul

My wish, farfetched though it may sound, is that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had invoked...

September 03, 2015

For the Syrians: At Last, A Poster Child

It's impossible to guess how many people have seen the photo of Aylan Kurdi, the...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

“Jewish Schindler” Working to Liberate ISIS Sex Slaves

As of this writing, Montreal businessman Steve Maman has been instrumental in rescuing 128 women...

August 05, 2015

Turkish Wedding Party Feeds Syrian Multitudes

Sometimes you run across a real-life event that echoes the Gospel almost too loudly to...

August 04, 2015

ISIS Gains A New Enemy: My Former Student

If you wait long enough on a balcony overlooking the main street of a Turkish...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Those Stupid Private Race Wars

While marching last week through Istanbul’s super-historic Sultanahmet district to protest the Chinese government’s restrictions...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

The Rising Cost of Price Tagging

Last Thursday, after arson damaged the administrative buildings of the historic Church of the Multiplication...

June 18, 2015

Ramadan at the Mall

They say Ramadan opens with a rolling worldwide cannonade: each locality keeps its own cannon,...

June 11, 2015

How to Live Near Section Eight Housing

Last Friday’s pool-party fracas in the Craig Ranch section of McKinney, Texas ended with Corporal...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Conversions at the Phoenix Islamic Cultural Center

When I first met Paul Griffin on Friday afternoon in front of Washington Park, during...

May 30, 2015

Phoenix: Civilizations Clash at Twilight

If you were up for some fun mischief – say, if you wanted to set...

May 25, 2015

Are We Ready for Our “Holocaust Literature” Yet?

This past Saturday on Facebook, a friend of mine posted an e-mail forwarded her from...

May 22, 2015

A Palm for Romero, A Finger Wagged at the World

The Church’s decision to beatify Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez as a martyr shows just...

May 21, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: All out of Mercy?

For me – and, I suspect, for many people – defense witnesses’ pleas for Dzhokhar...

May 18, 2015

New Arab Saints: A Fountain of Virtue to the Thirsty

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

My Shemagh and Me

A couple of days ago, I became the owner of a shemagh. A shemagh is...

April 12, 2015

Amman: Where A Good Church Is Easy to Find

Finding a Christian church in Amman is the easiest thing in the world – provided...

February 2015

February 15, 2015

Lent and the Lame Evangelist

I’ve been warned that wearing a cross openly in Turkey means asking for trouble. There’s...

February 10, 2015

The Crusades and Yearning for Christendom

A few days ago, my Patheos colleague Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry asked fellow Catholics to lay off...

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