Europe, the Missionaries’ Battle Ground
The plight of converts to Christianity in Muslim countries is well known. What is less known is the plight of Muslim converts to Christianity in Western Europe. Last week Dutch television broadcast a documentary which shows how former Muslims in the Netherlands are frequent victims of intimidation and violence.
Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
The 48 hours since the election of Barack Obama have been unkind. Friends once thought sensible recount how they burst into tears, or felt proud of America for the first time in eight years, or stood in awe of this historic moment. There is something to the last: it is historic that, as Shelby Steele writes, “For the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader.” Steele’s history is not entirely correct – I would argue that the 1992 South African referendum amounted to the same thing – but his point is taken, and there is certainly no parallel between 1992 South Africa and 2008 America.
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