A Failure of Vision
Ukraine’s Grim Slide

The current political crisis shows just how weak Ukraine’s government really is—but it also shows just how badly the West has failed Ukraine.

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Ukraine's Careening Democracy
Poroshenko’s Political Shadowplay

Ukraine’s President appears to have pulled off a murky political maneuver, potentially giving his fractious governing coalition breathing room—for the time being.

Lutherans in America
After Ethnicity

For Lutheranism, ethnicity is no longer a real distinguishing factor in America.

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Divide & Conquer
Russia Wields the Kurdish Weapon

Vladimir Putin is exploiting yet another incoherence in U.S. Middle East policy. And the MSM is still ignoring the implications of the comprehensive failures of the Obama Administration.

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Religion & Other Curiosities
Eastern Orthodox Cacophony in America

In the American context, how can Orthodoxy cope with the dynamics of the denominational system—essentially a free market of religious options?

After Manufacturing
Steel Overcapacity Rattles Europe

Countries like Germany and France have been fighting for decades to slow the decline of manufacturing jobs, without doing nearly enough to prepare for a new, post-mass-manufacturing economy.

Religion and Modernity
Urbanity as a Vortex of Pluralism

The following text is based on a longer paper written for a conference on “The City and Religion” at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, January 2016.

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The Colonials Strike Back
African Bishops Against Sexual Liberation

Will the Archbishop of Uganda excommunicate the Archbishop of Canterbury by 2019?

Blue Model Blowup
Detroit’s Teacher Union Meltdown

Detroit’s teachers have called coordinated “sick-outs” that amount to a strike—and strikes by public sector employees are illegal in Michigan.

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Interfaith Relations
Under the Long Shadow of the Holocaust

Interfaith dialogue takes two important steps forward.

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