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Jihad and Justice: The Two Cities
The conception of just war and its relationship to the state is indispensable in both Christian and Islamic political thought. Since both Christians and Muslims set up right authority as a condition...
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Jihad and Justice: Augustine's Citizens
Besides distinguishing between two cities: the city of God and the city of man, Augustine also pays close attention to the differences between the members of these two cities. By examining the nature...
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Jihad and Justice: The Two Territories
Islamic theology and political theory makes use of a distinction comparable to Augustine’s city of God and city of man. In Islam, this is the distinction between dar al-islam and dar al-harb. These...
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Jihad And Justice: Contrasting Views
The primary difference between Christian and Islamic theories of statehood lies in the relationship between temporal and spiritual duties and by extension, temporal and spiritual authorities....
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Jihad and Justice: Pluralism and Western Values
Both Christianity and Islam are large and powerful religious forces in today’s world—forces powerful enough that they have caught the attention of the current ruling class, Western society. Both...
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Jihad and Justice: Western Pluralism and Islamic Exclusivity
In the foregoing discussion of similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic political and just war theory there is one distinction that should immediately appear to be in conflict with...
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"Advances in Global Health" Symposium: Less Thought, More Rhetoric
The air was full of excitement and promise as the hundreds of people attending Pacific Lutheran University’s “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations” symposium last evening,...
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"Advances In Global Health" Symposium: A Response
I’m still reeling from my exposure to a full two hours of rhetoric without substance at the symposium on “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations.” The radical difference between...
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Christianity and Globalization: A Unity in Diversity
The Judeo-Christian religion has always experienced a tension between expansion and isolation, universality and particularity. From the beginning of the history of the world as outlined in the Hebrew...
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A Failure of Storytelling: Kony 2012 and the Social Imagination
After watching the massive controversy over Invisible Children’s Kony2012 campaign develop, I asked my friend Jake Meador to write about it. Jake writes frequently about Africa and our relationship...
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Brexit and the Moral Vision of Nationhood
Note from Jake: This is an Alastair piece so it’s both extremely long and extremely rewarding to those who will read the whole thing. That said, today may be a good day to avail yourself of that green...
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Why Christians Can Support Tighter Immigration Restrictions
Today we have another long-form piece, this one coming from Stephen Wolfe. I’m pleased to run this piece chiefly because Stephen does a good job of trying to focus the debate around the specific...
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The Cross and ISIS
I’m pleased to publish this guest post by Tim Scheiderer on how Christians ought to be thinking about their response to ISIS and other similar terrorist organizations. Islamic terrorism’s path...
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Global Economies, Immigration, and Precarious Places
I’m pleased to publish this essay by Matthew Petersen. In response to somewhat shrill claims by some Christian intellectuals that Christians ought to support mass migration, and oppose Brexit, Stephen...
View ArticleHow the Irish Lost Themselves and Their Ancestral Inheritance and How They...
By Emily Sullivan When I was growing up I heard two key narratives about “our people,” my Irish ancestors. Though I now look back at them with a bit less sentimentality, these stories nonetheless...
View ArticleThe War of All Against One: Why Christians Should Not Be Populists
By Justin Hawkins (Presented for Delivery at the 2019 Henry Institute Symposium on Christianity and Politics, Calvin College, April 26, 2019) Introduction I begin with an intentionally polemical...
View ArticleBuhari Regime Underwrites Corruption and Persecution in Nigeria
by Daniel DeCarlo Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election victory in February of this year was in many ways a surprise. His first term’s report card included a failing economy, rising...
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Rise of the Titans: Fascism, Christianity, and the Seduction of the Brutal
If you visit the Hotel du Lac, an inexplicably French-named bed and breakfast catering to German and British on the shores of Lake Garda, in Italy, you will likely see some of the hotel’s collection of...
View ArticleTo Help Persecuted Christians the U.S. Needs to Freeze the Buhari Regime’s...
Six years ago, in 2014, the Isle of Jersey managed to seize over $300 million dollars in embezzled funds from the grip of the warlord and notorious human rights violator General Sani Abacha, who had...
View ArticleBusena and Emmanuel’s Story: Refugees Seeking Peace
This is a bit of an unusual post for us. Here’s the story: Through my church I recently became aware of a refugee situation in Lincoln involving a young South Sudanese man named Emmanuel Chol who...
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