History

I am grateful to Paul D. Miller for his recent review of “Between Babel and Beast.” Some of his criticisms hit home, some miss the mark. I respond to a few.

It is a common misconception that Christianity is historically the bastion of and main cheerleader for religious freedom and Islam…

In the fate of Egypt and its Christians, we should read one crucial fact: neither democratic nor authoritarian governance delivered anything resembling equal citizenship.

The American-led Protestant missions in Korea achieved perhaps the most rapid and complete transformation of a nation in the history of Christianity, but they disappeared into almost complete obscurity by the time that the Korean War forced Americans to pay attention to Korea.

American thinkers initiated the recovery of the just war idea and its use in contemporary debate on ethics and the…

Over the nearly four years running from December 1940 to September 1944, the inhabitants of the French village of Le…

Last month marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the failed bombing intended to assassinate the German Führer Adolf Hitler at his…

Americans are a morally ambitious, aspirational people. They are also a pragmatic people. These two qualities often find themselves at…

To the New York Times, Silwan is just another Palestinian village that the Zionist Settler Colonial Enterprise is undermining, literally. But the village has Jewish origins, and archeological discoveries there are important to both Jews and Christians.