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December 2015

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 22, 2015

Refugees and Bart Simpson’s Paradox

In the summer of 2002, Brent Scowcroft published an opinion piece in the Wall Street...

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...

November 14, 2015

In Paris: Christ Crucified or Avenging Angels?

In the fall of 1914, the Welshman Arthur Machen published a short story titled “The...

September 2015

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 15, 2015

St. Maximilian and the Two Crowns

A couple of my readers reminded me that yesterday was the feast day of St....

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...

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 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 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 22, 2015

Special Attention: Part I

On my way home from Turkey, I stopped in Kyiv -- the auld sod, more...

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 18, 2015

Monday Mourning Coming Down

The day after IS terrorists beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, all of...

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...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Here We Go Again, Folks

Don’t tell anyone I’m writing. I’m supposed to be beavering away on a new curriculum...

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