Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2004)

The articles here include a critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy and a call for humility abroad. Additional contributors assess current trends in faith-based development and religious responses to climate change.

Confessional Foreign Policy

Robert Seiple Wednesday, 1 September 2004

When governments and their leaders fail, a timely apology followed by appropriate preventative action is sometimes necessary for effective foreign policy.

Rethinking Religious Establishment and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Israel

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Steven Mazie Wednesday, 1 September 2004

A nuanced acceptance of certain religious performances or beliefs is beneficial to a legitimate democratic state.

Freedom-idealism and the U.S. National Security Strategy

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James Skillen Wednesday, 1 September 2004

The Bush Administration has outlined what is ultimately an informal empire with the US as leader.

Faith and Foreign Aid: How the World Bank Got Religion, and Why it Matters

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Scott Thomas Wednesday, 1 September 2004

There is a growing acknowledgement of the effective role of faith-based organization in development.

Changing the Climate of Christian Internationalism: Global Warming and Human Suffering

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Noah Toly Wednesday, 1 September 2004

Christians must persistently attend to all aspects of human suffering, including the effects of climate change.

Interrogating Islam... and Ourselves

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Chris Seiple Wednesday, 1 September 2004

When evaluating the faith of Islam, Christians must first look at their own expressions of the Christian faith.

Faith and Vocation: Christianity and Political Geography - On Faith and Geopolitical Imagination

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Nick Megoran Wednesday, 1 September 2004

Secular nationalism is rooted in exclusion. However, scripturally based nationalism is predicated upon inclusion in an effort to contribute to the building of a "holy nation."

ABC's and AIDS: Condom Nation?

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Chris Hickey Wednesday, 1 September 2004

Those Christians who see AIDS up close are quietly rethinking faith-based strategies against the disease.

Faith in Religion's Reconciling Power

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Loramy Gerstbauer Wednesday, 1 September 2004

A review of Faith-based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik, edited by Douglas Johnston.

The Morality of Bush Administration Foreign Policy

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Mark Amstutz Wednesday, 1 September 2004

A review of Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk, by Walter Russell Mead.

Evangelicals and World Christianity: A Review Essay

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Laura Merzig Fabrycky Wednesday, 1 September 2004

A review of Whose Religion is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West by Lamin Sanneh, Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century by Donald Lewis, and Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by Paul Freston.

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