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The latest news on Iraqi civilian casualties, Jimmy Carter on North Korea, Iran, Darfur, exporting the faith, religious tax-exemptions, partisan politics, and homelessness. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq. Study Puts War’s Iraqi Death Tally at More Than 600,000 – “More than 600,000 Iraqis have died…

I confess: Over the last 10 days, I did not pay much attention to the Amish school shooting. As the mother of an 8-year old girl, I find school violence stories too painful to follow. Despite attempts to avoid this particular news, the stories of the Amish practice of forgiveness eventually captivated me. Their practice…

This four-part Boston Globe series on faith and foreign aid is required reading this week. And it’s especially troubling for those of us who have tried to convince our friends on the progressive side not to freak out about the president’s faith-based initiatives. Like David Kuo, I have argued–and continue to believe–that the real story…

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak. This is a matter of tremendous significance, for it reveals to what extent a religion that was born of a people acquainted with persecution…
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