What Middle Eastern Christians Want
by Luma SimmsNot all Christians want to live in a Western-style democracy. Continue Reading »
Where I Was Wrong Part II: Iraq
by Pete SpiliakosPerhaps no error looms larger in contemporary American politics than Iraq. Continue Reading »
“We Know that We Are Going To Be Killed”
by Fr. Douglas Bazi and Jonathan CoppageAn interview with an Iraqi priest. Continue Reading »
Statement on Genocide Against Christians in Iraq and Syria
by Cornel West and Robert P. GeorgeIn the name of decency, humanity, and truth, we call on President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to recognize and give public expression to the fact that Christians in Iraq and Syria—along with Yazidis, Turkmen, . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians, the State Department, and Genocide
by Mark MovsesianHow is it acceptable to tell religious minorities that things are comparatively good for them because they can “choose” to accept oppressive and demeaning treatment and manage to survive? Continue Reading »
What Have We Learned From the Iraq War?
by Pete SpiliakosKnowing what we know now,” would you have invaded Iraq? Jeb Bush stumbled over this question. His answer focused on whether Saddam Hussein's regime had active programs for weapons of mass destruction. But the mistakes relating to WMDs are neither the only, nor the most currently relevant, of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Foreign Policy Magazine on Iraqi Christians
by Mark MovsesianFrom Foreign Policy, a moving essay on how Iraqi Christians are observing this Christmas season. Last month, the author, Christian Caryl, visited Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Chaldean-rite Catholics, refugees from ISIS’s summer campaign, live in tents in a church courtyard: Continue Reading »
The Words of Canon Andrew White
by Mark BauerleinWe can’t go out into the streets and do evangelism and tell them what the gospel is, but we can show it.” So said Canon Andrew White last week addressing a small group of local Christians in New York City. A couple of days earlier, he gave the opening prayer in the U. S. Senate, which you can watch at C-SPAN. Continue Reading »
In Defense of Regime Change
by Carl ScottFirst of all, our gratitude to Douglas Ollivant for his service. Second, read the whole essay Peter links below. A fine piece—if anything, too brief, because no-one provides good reporting or analysis on Iraq these days. Third, the basic point Ollivant is making about regime-change, and what . . . . Continue Reading »
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