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Memo to the President
MEMORANDUM TO: President Barack Obama DATE: July 7, 2009 SUBJECT: Your Middle East policy: refuse to be drawn AUTHOR: Charles Strohmer Mr. President: When you were a candidate for President you promised to extend the language of diplomacy toward the Middle East, exhibiting a political wisdom in which talking to people who are different than […]
Read moreLynn Green (Muslims & Christians)
Charles Strohmer Talks with Lynn Green about an Evangelical-led Christian Reconciliation Walk among Muslims Nine-hundred years ago, in what must be history’s most stunning reversal of what it means to follow Jesus, Christianity held high the cross of Christ to justify the Crusades, which continued off and on in five major campaigns for more than […]
Read moreChristopher Hitchens
In his controversial best-seller god is not Great, Christopher Hitchens employs the lowercase g for God throughout the book as an apt symbol of his fierce atheism. He is no fan of any religion. The book, however, also reveals what the Oxford educated Hitchens does believe about the ultimate nature and meaning of life. Isn’t […]
Read moreGM Foods: Hard to Swallow
GM Foods: Hard to Swallow A primer on genetically modified foods by Charles Strohmer It is difficult, if not impossible, to overstate the importance of food. Eating, after all, is a quintessentially human activity. Sure, all life forms, in one way or another, get nutrients and energy from outside themselves, but only people have transformed […]
Read moreWisdom-based Foreign Relations
The following article began its life in late-2008 as a Wisdom Project Special Paper that I had been asked to write for a senior political official in Britain. He was curious as to what the agency of wisdom might practically offer political and religious leaders and their advisers working in the field of Western – […]
Read moreElecting Not to Vote
Electing Not to Vote It Might Be Your Sacred Duty by Charles Strohmer With all due respect to Chuck Colson, voting may not be a sacred duty. Yet in an editorial in Christianity Today (Oct 2008), Colson writes that “voting is not an option – it’s both our civic and sacred duty….Voting is required of […]
Read moreDemocracy in Afghanistan?
Democracy in Afghanistan? A Cautionary Tale of Conflicting Interests by Charles Strohmer So this is what the democracy experiment in Afghanistan comes down to. You may be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity. Well, maybe not. But then again…. This stunning juridical ambivalence in Kabul the past two weeks, in the story of Abdul […]
Read moreAm I a Liberal?
Am I a Liberal? Confessions of an Irenic Iconoclast by Charles Strohmer Three times that I know of last year I got caught in the crossfire of America’s so-called culture war by three people who must think they know me better than I know myself. They responded to pieces I’d written by labeling me a […]
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