by Martin Brooks | Jun 15, 2016 | Opinion
The “Rust Belt” is a phrase that brings to mind abandoned buildings, crumbling infrastructures, demoralized and unemployed people. Those that remain complain about the declining quality of life, police protection and the schools their children attend. What...
by Martin Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | Opinion
Douglas Johnston, known as the father of faith-based diplomacy, opened a recent conference on Religious Freedom and Islamophobia at Temple University by saying, “The greatest asset we have to fight militant Islam is the American Muslim community. Unfortunately,...
by Martin Brooks | Aug 11, 2015 | Opinion
I have been “evangelized” both by well-meaning Muslims doing “da’wah” (Arabic for “issuing a summons” or “making an invitation”) and Christians who made assumptions about my relationship with Jesus. One Muslim...
by Martin Brooks | Jun 16, 2014 | Opinion
I remember sometime in my educational process becoming aware of and wrestling with the term “benevolent dictator.” As a Western, independent child of the Enlightenment, I had assumed all dictators were bad dictators. I had only heard the word used in a...
