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

A couple of friends have asked me why I’m uncharacteristically mordant about certain people I have dealt with on social media. These...

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...

There’s a lot to dislike in the Quebecois government’s recent bill that would outlaw the wearing of religious symbols by public...

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacre in Rwanda, a quarter-century since 800,000 people died at the hands of their...

It seems like a headline from The Onion, the American satirical website that daily tests our credulity, but it’s real: “U.K. student...

Exactly zero news agencies would bother reporting that a local man encountered a dog who didn’t bite him, as he had feared it would, but...

“But, Professor, I learned in church that God wrote the Ten Commandments himself on stone tablets and gave them to Moses. Isn’t that what...

Here’s another good reason to read the Bible regularly and think about it hard: It will help you avoid succumbing to pleasantly written...

I recently tweeted the link to an article I found interesting. One of my followers shot back, however, this furious riposte: “This is a...

Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...

The recent shooting in a Quebec City mosque has prompted shocked Canadians to wonder whether we will see more religiously motivated...

In the target-rich environment that is the Trump Presidency, and as the honeymoon with our charming Prime Minister fades, it is easy to...

There’s nothing like social media, and particularly Facebook and Twitter, to see how people’s minds work. Or don’t. If one can step back...

Perhaps you can help me with this. I’m trying to decide whether to find a new mechanic for my car. The problem with my current mechanic...

The story of the resignation of the UK’s Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party is easily interpreted as an indictment of...

Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...

Yes, yes, I know. It’s horrible, but one can’t look away. The slow-motion car wreck that, for many of us, is the U.S. presidency...

Good friend Miroslav Volf published a fine book a couple of years ago on A Public Faith. The journal Political Theology has released a...