by Jesse Wheeler | Apr 8, 2019 | Opinion
On March 25, 2019, President Donald Trump unilaterally recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory in a deeply controversial move contravening decades of official U.S. policy and international consensus. Officially Syrian, the territory has been occupied by...
by Jesse Wheeler | May 20, 2015 | Opinion
The Pew Research Center released in early April an in-depth demographic study titled, “The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050: Why Muslims are Rising Fastest and Unaffiliated are Shrinking as a Share of Global Population.”...
by Jesse Wheeler | Apr 7, 2015 | Opinion
I consistently encounter the same myths about the modern Middle East and its peoples. Some myths are seemingly innocuous, others less so. And because the world is now so interconnected, such long-standing myths must no longer have a place within our global discourse....
by Jesse Wheeler | Apr 29, 2014 | Opinion
Bad theology kills. For many, the subject of “theology” invokes the image of old white men with impressive beards and antiquated ideas sitting in ivory seminary towers writing really big books that nobody reads. Yet within everything we think, say and do...
by Jesse Wheeler | Mar 12, 2014 | Opinion
Few other passages are as instrumental in shaping my personal understanding of Christian witness as Matthew 5:13-16, which calls Christians to be salt and light through their good deeds. Jesus’ seemingly simple statement in Matthew 5:13 has long mystified...
