January/February 2016

They Shall Not 0
- January/February 2016
- January 2, 2016
Kim Davis has become a symbol. To some, she represents a stubborn bigotry; to others, she’s a twenty-first-century American heroine. It’s an unlikely fate for the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk, who labored in relative obscurity until the U.S. Supreme Court’s June verdict in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Davis, who identifies as
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The Search for Peace 0
- January/February 2016
- January 1, 2016
Martin Luther was on his way back to school after a visit with his parents in Mansfield, Germany, when he narrowly escaped being struck by lightning. He prayed to Saint Anna, the mother of the virgin Mary, “Help me, Saint Anna, I will become a monk!” 1 Twenty-one years old at the time, Luther spent
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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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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

A Way To Escape 0

Where can we find hope in the news from Iraq and Syria? With 3,000 Yezidi girls still enslaved by Islamic militants, millions displaced from their homes, and daily reports of more Christians being beheaded and crucified, the situation is clearly grim. Many girls in “Bazi’s” situation have committed suicide. She is one of the few

The Religious Century 0

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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