A stroll through just about any cathedral in Europe, not to mention many a church just about anywhere in the world, would bring to the eye the sight of perhaps a handful or even dozens of images of God and Christ, as imagined by painters, glaziers, and sculptors down through …
This essay was first published as a CGG Weekly essay on July 22, 2016. The online free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, keeps a “List of terror incidents” by month and by year. (For instance, here is the page for 2016.) The list for July 2016, which at this writing covers only July 1-20, …
This first appeared as the “WorldWatch” column in the January-February 2016 Forerunner. Populism, a political philosophy that appeals to and claims to represent the interests and notions of the average person, has enjoyed a long history in the United States. It can be argued that populist fears fueled the American Revolution, …
