Review

The Great God Pan Still Lives

January 25, 2016
Ed Simon reviews Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell.

Osama Bin Laden, Dead

May 2, 2011
Typing this, I hesitate.  Is this a mere death?  An assassination?  A murder?  And if not the latter, why...

Preaching Against the Wars

November 8, 2010
The Proper 29 Project, created by Mennonite pastor Mark Villegas and named for Reign of Christ Sunday (November...

What We're Missing

April 6, 2010
Elissa Lerner: The BBC offered a cursory introduction to the Yazidis and the Mandaeans, two ancient minority religions that sprung from the...
Feature

Imams for Hire

January 2, 2006
02 January 2006   “Insight and Influence. Anywhere. Anytime.” NYT reports that the Lincoln Group, a U.S. contractor recently exposed as subverting...

Daily Links 20 June 2005

June 20, 2005
Fantastic Iraq 1,001 Nights in Iraq: Fantasy space stations and the “Book of Dragons” and Magic playing cards, amazing...

Daily Links 18 January 2005

January 18, 2005
The Accidental Abductee Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, the “much-loved” 66-year old head of the archdiocese who was kidnapped at...

What's the Matter with Iraqi Women?

January 11, 2005
Voting against one’s own interests may be an international phenomenon, according toHannah Allam of Knight Ridder Newspapers. Though women make up...
Feature

Nothing Can Stop Us Now

November 7, 2004
Nothing Can Stop Us Now 07 November 2004 Marines. Iraq. Yesterday. Jeff Sharlet: Yesterday “Weekend America,” a new public radio program produced...

Daily Links October 7 2004

October 7, 2004
NYT Just Plain Wrong Turns out the NYT Jodi Wilgoren piece on Kerry and Catholics (blogged below) was not only so boring...

Hearts, Minds, Mortars

March 30, 2004
In a 2,600 word New York Times report by David Rohde on the American “Hunt… for Hearts and Minds” in Afghanistan, the role of religion...

Enlightening Iraq

February 17, 2004
We suppose it should come as no surprise that The Salt Lake Tribune, using a Combined News Service report, should give...

Take 'Em To The River

February 16, 2004
The Baptists in Iraq are getting antsy about the U.S. invasion, but not because the crusade isn’t going according...

The "R" Word

February 2, 2004
There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon...

Christ Without Saddam

November 11, 2003
Saddam’s not the only thing gone missing from Iraq; according to the British Daily Telegraph, booze and gambling are disappearing...

Let God Sort ’Em Out

November 10, 2003
Newsweek‘s Joshua Hammer offers an unintended glimpse into the role of religion — American, that is — in the Iraq war....

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