Pentecost and Global Harvest
This is an excerpt from the Spirit-Filled Study Guide – Race and Reconciliation, “The Holy Spirit reversed what had happened at Babel …
John Calvin on War, Diplomacy, Defense, and Alliances
After some positive feedback from my previous post on C.H. Spurgeon and his prayers in regard to war, I decided to offer …
Nationalistic Pride Dies at the Cross
Jesus is the only hope for the nations, for Israel, for Iran, for North and South Korea. Lasting unity only comes …
More Proof that the Arab Spring and American Foreign Policy is Making Life Worse for Christians
Life for Christians has become more difficult in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now in Egypt. I join in solidarity with the Egyptian Christians …
Carl Medearis Offers Some Thoughts On Israel and Palestinians Worth Thinking Through
Via: My Take: Jesus would support Palestinian statehood bid – CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs. I am not stating my support per …
A North Korean Student's Testimony
Bill Walsh at Desiring God posted a video of her testimony and also linked to the reaction of Michael Oh, the Korean …
Joseph D'Souza on the Caste System
Kevin DeYoung posted his friend Jason Carter’s thoughts about the Lausanne Congress here. Here’s one part that grabbed my attention: Perhaps the …
More about the declining Christian population in the Middle East
Some time ago I linked to an article in the New York Times about this trend. Foreign Policy had a story today …
The Roots of Middle Eastern Conflicts
Lee Smith challenges the theory of “linkage,” which states that the key to resolving conflict in the Middle East is resolving the …
Adventures in Christian Unity
Like many Christians, I’ve wished that Christians could be more united even while I am a Protestant, a member of the most …
Game theory and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Lee Smith writes about his conversation with Israeli Nobel laureate Robert Aumann. Aumann believes that game theory applies to international relations: In …
Support for Israeli settlements declining?
Bradley Burston, a blogger with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (in my understanding, a paper on the center-left of the Israeli political spectrum), …
Book review, “King Leopold’s Ghost” by Adam Hochschild
I found this review that I wrote for my own memory after I read King Leopold’s Ghost in the winter of 2007-2008, and …
Book review, “How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind,” by Thomas Oden
Through his work as editor of Intervarsity Press’ forays into making ancient Christian commentary more accessible to modern people, Thomas Oden became …
Israel Under a Microscope II
An essay by Yoram Hazony asks why Israel is consistently vilified in ways that other nations are not. I think that his …
Jonathan Speyer’s advice on how to understand the Middle East
Michael Totten interviewed Jonathan Spyer, a journalist who served in the Israeli army. Toward the end of the interview, Totten asked what …
Palestinian State-Building
Hussein Ibish writes that the Palestinian Authority is making making substantial efforts “to create Palestine as a practical reality.” A recent economic …
A Kurdish Perspective on Islamism
Sabah A. Salih, professor of English at Bloomsburg University, writes in his review of Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals that …
The Economist on Al Jazeera
A short article from The Economist (May 27), notes that while Western media are decreasing their international presence, the English and Arabic …
The Changing Nature of Israel's Wars
Michael Totten argues that Israel needs to go after the hostile states of Iran and Syria when the time comes for self-defense …
Hamas' Rule in Gaza
In January, I posted about Fawaz Gerges’ argument that Hamas could be a partner in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A Jerusalem Post …
Iranian Power in the Middle East
Vali Nasr’s The Shia Revival is among the best books that I have read in my relatively quest to understand the Middle …
Iran Policy Advice from a former Revolutionary Guardsman
As a lot of things are, recommending a certain U.S. policy toward Iran is out of my league. Last month I read …
Chinese Collapse?
Joel sent me an article from World Affairs that presents a very unconventional picture of China: a country on the brink of …