“PARTICULAR CONCERN” ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The US State Department just released its Report on International Religious Freedom. Much of the media reporting on this study focuses on those countries identified as arousing “particular concern”,...
View ArticleWhere the Wind Leads
For the May 1st-15th Patheos Book Club In early 1979, Hoa Chung had a dream. Although plans were coming together to leave communist-ruled Vietnam for a better life elsewhere, this dream was not a...
View ArticleBethel at War: A Digital History
I’m pleased to present a guest post from Fletcher Warren, a recent graduate of Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read this fine essay, but more importantly, check out the impressive digital...
View ArticleHow Unique is Our Present Crisis Really?
For 9 years now, nearly every semester I have taught a survey course on the second half of American history. The story line is so deeply embedded in my brain that I could spontaneously regale you with...
View ArticleSaigon, Kabul, and the Myth of the Graveyard of Empires
Recently, I was one of several historians of the 1970s-1980s era interviewed by New York Times journalist Clay Risen. The article’s subtitle reads “The fall of Kabul is not the fall of Saigon. But...
View ArticleImmigrant Strangers in Our Midst: An Interview with Ulrike Stockhausen
Until the 1980s, evangelicals didn’t distinguish between legal immigrants and refugees and “illegal” undocumented immigrants. They welcomed all newcomers.
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