WAR, IT HAS BEEN SAID, is politics by other means; religion is politics by most means. When people go to war in the name of religion, religion should be analyzed politically. However, all too often... Read More

THOMAS PIKETTY grabbed the world’s attention last year with his magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In hundreds of pages of dense prose and statistics, Piketty delivers a mountain of proof for what most... Read More

Ryan J. Bell was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist tradition and spent nearly twenty years as a pastor—the last eight as senior pastor at the Hollywood Adventist Church in California. In March of 2013 he... Read More

ALLOW ME to describe a familiar course of events. Somewhere in the world, extremists carry out a terrorist attack in the name of Islam. In the days and weeks following, a series of opinion pieces... Read More

DURING A DECIDEDLY staid Presbyterian wedding ceremony some years back, I passed the time reading the Gospel of Matthew from the Bible sitting before me in the pew. And I was struck by something I’d... Read More

WHAT IS HUMANISM? Some say it’s a godless worldview, a philosophy free of supernaturalism. But humanism is both more and less than that. More, because it is about affirming what we do believe, not just... Read More

"If boomers had marched for peace or civil rights (and bear in mind that many didn’t), those days of saving the world were over—now they would save themselves."   THE POST-1980 STRATEGY of opposing the... Read More