27 February 2013
Americans making the best out of rewriting the facts Argo’s win of an Oscar as best film borrows from the American deeply held views of exceptionalism and manifest destiny. In 1979 as the Shaw of...
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25 February 2013
I stepped up into the Pope’s train from the Vatican train station, en route to Assisi. It was a crisp October (2011) morning in Rome. Joining some 300 others, I had been invited to join Pope...
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20 February 2013
Dispatch from Lebanon Cedars are valuable for their lasting quality. Building material, dock lumber all attest to their ability to resist wood rot. Biblical references to the “cedars of Lebanon...
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11 February 2013
Dispatch from Egypt What can a church do in the midst of revolution? I looked through a revealing window unto the remarkable leadership and ministry of the Al-Dubara Evangelical Church in downtown Cairo...
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