Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is gone: Long Live the Muslim Brotherhood?
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down this morning, and there’s no way to know what will happen next. While one should, on principle, welcome the departure of a tyrant, the fact is the Egyptian...
View ArticleFreedom Sunday 2011
March 13 was Freedom Sunday, an international effort by congregations around the world to raise awareness about the problem of human trafficking and organize efforts to oppose it around the world....
View ArticlePornography, PETA Style
I would have thought that anyone arguing for a connection between PETA and pornography would have to suggest that objectification of women expressed via pornography was comparable to the...
View ArticleGood News From Libya–For Now
As Libyan rebel forces occupy the capital at Tripoli, it’s natural to wonder whether the presumed ousting of Moamar Qaddafi will lead to something even more insidious than his tyrannical regime. It’s a...
View ArticleAbdolreza Haghnejad and Yousef Nadarkhani: Christians in Iran
Yousef Nadarkhani still looks set to become the first Christian executed for apostasy in Iran since 1990. Unfortunately, he may be merely the first in a new wave of Iranian persecutions–yet the media...
View ArticleSocial Justice, the Body of Christ, and the Reputation of Christians
Over at the Huffington Post, Zach Hunter has written a piece about his work in the area of human trafficking. At only 19–and having started his ministry when he was only 12–his track record likely puts...
View ArticleUS Support for Yousef Nadarkhani Grows as Iran Denies Its Own Apostasy Charges
In a move more reminiscent of a badly regulated nursery than of a foreign power, Iranian officials have now denied that Yousef Nadarkhani is to be executed on charges of apostasy. Instead, the young...
View ArticleAll For One, Not One For All: Thoughts on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
“It is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” This age-old attitude is at the heart of the drama in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, which begins...
View ArticleWhat if Spock Was Right: Gilad Shalit, the Many, and the One
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas announced yesterday that Gilad Shalit, the young Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas since 2006, will be released. In exchange for Shalit’s...
View ArticleWelcome Home, Gilad Shalit.
Gilad Shalit was welcomed home today after five long years in the Hamas prison system. (The Telegraph is live-blogging his homecoming for those interested.) The 477 Palestinian prisoners who were freed...
View Article#FirstWorldProblems
I hate it when I check my food order after I pull out of the drive through, and I have to walk inside to ask them to fix it. How does that complaint strike you? Mildly amusing? Ironic? Or are you...
View ArticleTrue Religion And The Welfare State
I recently had a conversation with a friend who I would consider part of the “Christian Left.” As I’ve mentioned before, those on the Christian Left tend, generally speaking, to reject evangelical...
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Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why “It’s My Body, I Can Do What I Want” Won’t Do
Autumn in the Sovereign Zone[1] Anyone who has ever heard a conversation about abortion has heard pro-choice statements like: “My body, my choice.” “You can’t tell another person what she can’t do with...
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An Insurmountable Obstacle
Did you know it’s estimated that in 2011-1012 about 7.1 billion people were considered chronically undernourished? Or did you know that the estimated number of orphans world-wide is around 1.5 billion?...
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Why YOU Should Love the Homeless–Breaking the Cycle of Rejection
This past Saturday, my friends and I met Leonard, one of many living on the streets of LA, as we were walking in downtown. Leonard started a conversation with us after we smiled and nodded at him when...
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