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Even the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes

With the omicron variant stirring things up in new ways, we face the discouraging prospect of moving back into more restrictions as Year...

How about Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” instead? You might wonder if these are trick questions…. Cohen’s song was made famous by both the...

It has been a very hard year for students everywhere, it seems, and in ways peculiar to each person. As I grade final papers, I am...

I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...

Ministries that Think They Can Do No Financial Wrong Are Deceiving Themselves I published this article twenty years ago. I regret to say...

The ignoramus who wrote in the WSJ about Jill Biden not being a real doctor (because she isn’t a physician, but holds a Doctor of...

So what about those liberals—by which I mean, those socialists—by which I mean, those communists? Thus far in this little series (which...

A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...

I’d love to pile on Jerry Falwell, Jr. for engaging in, and then happily Instagramming, a yacht party (!) in which he, family members,...

George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...

The internet is telling me that as a white person I should feel guilty for all the bad things that have happened to BIPOC people in North...

It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....

The Coalition Avenir Québec continues its remarkable record of concentrating power in the provincial government on behalf of its pure...

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has gotten a lot of attention recently for declaring that “This Has Been the Best Year Ever.”...

I’m only going to say this one more time. Canadian evangelicals are not identical with our American cousins and not all aligned with the...

Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for...

Sadly, of course, both political parties and the political press insist on characterizing modern elections in just this way. Leaders, not...

This week we confront the appalling suffering of the Rohingya people at the hands of their fierce former neighbours in Myanmar/Burma....

The Baby Boomers strike again. This week, the Ontario Court of Appeal—the highest-level court in the country to consider a case of...