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Beyond Benign 0
- January/February 2016
- January 1, 2016
The pageantry and passion will long be remembered. The adoring crowds, the cheering children, the red carpets, the superlatives of welcome from heads of state, the gushing media accolades, the inspiring words transcending differences. Pope Francis is the fourth Roman pontiff to visit the United States, but without question—in the present age of 24-hour news,
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Wars and Rumors 0
- January/February 2016
- January 1, 2016
I’m back in the office now, but for a few days I was in another world; another time. I knew it to be so as our group drifted down the slopes of a valley toward a grove of gnarly old olive trees: some of them rather like empty wooden tubes with fresh green branches growing
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The Religious Century 0
- January/February 2016
- January 1, 2016
The twenty-first century will be more religious than the twentieth for several reasons. First is that, in many ways, religion is better adapted to a world of global instantaneous communication than are nation states and existing political institutions. Second is the failure of Western societies after World War II to address the most fundamental of
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Terrorism in Canada 0
- November/December 2015
- December 1, 2015
On October 20, 2014, 25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau slammed his car into a group of soldiers in the parking lot of a Canada shopping center in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, killing two. In the pursuit that followed, he was shot and killed when he got out of his wrecked car and brandished a knife. Then two days later
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