by Randall Balmer | Feb 9, 2023 | Opinion
America enters its high holy days this week: the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday. When thousands of spectators and millions of viewers witness the Super Bowl kickoff on Sunday, they will be participating in a ritual that has become every bit as entrenched in American life...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 8, 2023 | Opinion
Disinformation, anti-intellectualism and intimidation are tactics employed by authoritarians throughout history to obtain and maintain power. In the U.S., we’re seeing these tendencies manifested in book banning and in legislative efforts to prevent certain ideas and...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 7, 2023 | Opinion
Take a close look at how so many Americanized Christians define their faith today. What are the priorities, even essentials, they embrace and seek to enforce on others? It begins with “accepting Jesus” and moves pretty quickly to a few doctrinal points and defining...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 7, 2023 | Opinion
While in Kraków, Poland, I visited Oscar Schindler’s enamelware factory. Schindler, immortalized in the Steven Spielberg movie “Schindler’s List,” was a German industrialist and Nazi Party member who was credited with saving the lives of some 1,200 Jews...
by Starlette Thomas | Feb 6, 2023 | Opinion
Just in time for African American History Month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banned the Advanced Placement African American history course for high school students, which was nearly a decade in the making. It is yet another example of historical iconoclasm in the...
by Imad Enchassi | Feb 6, 2023 | Opinion
I grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, during the civil war that lasted from 1975 until 1990. I even witnessed the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre when a Lebanese Christian group killed anywhere from 300 to 3,000 people – mostly Palestinians and...
