by Ashley al-Saliby | Oct 21, 2016 | Opinion
A group of anti-Muslim “crusaders” were stopped last week from carrying out their planned violence against a Somali Muslim community in Kansas. News of this plot in the U.S., where I’m from originally, seemed to me horrifically similar to the 1982...
by Ashley al-Saliby | Oct 20, 2016 | Opinion
Where does it begin – the hatred that wants to hear women and children scream in terror? What kind of narrative makes one willing to cause their suffering? If America is “ever going to get turned around, it will be a bloodbath,” Patrick Eugene Stein...
by Philip Jenkins | May 13, 2016 | Opinion
Whatever happened to America’s crusades? Once upon a time, crusades were an integral part of American rhetoric, indicating a noble or righteous struggle inspired by higher motives. All sorts of political causes were “crusades,” not to mention the...
by Chris Heron | Feb 24, 2016 | Opinion
Christianity has had a horrendously complicated and shifting attitude to violent conflict. Here are five moments in Christian history that demonstrate our complex relationship with war. 1. The dogged pacifism of the early church. The early church had it tough. Facing...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 28, 2015 | Opinion
The savage inhumanity of ISIS’s brutal ideologues continued to manifest itself this week as the organization kidnapped hundreds of Christians to be used, abused, and possibly beheaded in a sneering show of radical imbecility that grows from a perverted...
