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22 July 2025

The Usury Dilemma Revisited (II)

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To me the issue is not about specifically paying usury or even enabling those who sin by taking it from me. I don't expect otherwise fro...
16 November 2019

More Disease Ridden Cures: Attacking Lausanne on the Basis of Right-Wing Politics (Part 2)

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It was appropriate that in the Old Testament order there was a certain earthly glory and indeed like Abraham we are 'wealthy' pilg...

More Disease Ridden Cures: Attacking Lausanne on the Basis of Right-Wing Politics (Part 1)

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I was eager to read ES Williams' Ecumenism: Another Gospel (Lausanne's Road to Rome) which was published in 2014. It was in certai...
20 October 2019

Chinese Evangelicals and the NED

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protest-united-states-destabilize-china/261712/ The National Endowment for Democracy isn't j...
12 October 2019

A New Phase in the Syria War: The Kurds Betrayed Again and the Turkish Invasion of Rojava

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I've been writing about Syria and the Kurds for many years as I was fascinated by these topics long before they became part of the nig...
06 July 2019

OBOR, Atlanticism and Trumpism: Setting the Stage for Proxy Conflicts and Battlegrounds in the New Cold War (Part 2)

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China's economy must continue growing. Continued Western investment is risky, all the more as it's clear the West is gearing for w...

OBOR, Atlanticism and Trumpism: Setting the Stage for Proxy Conflicts and Battlegrounds in the New Cold War (Part 1)

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Announced in the fall of 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR) also known as the New Silk Road continues to garner attention a...
14 April 2016

Pakistan: Imperial Blowback and the Shapur Effect

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In 1757 the British defeated a joint Mughal-French army at the Battle of Plassey. This set them on a course to dominate the whole of the In...
25 March 2016

Imperial Narratives, Urban Planning and Architecture

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The movie Downfall (Der Untergang) contains many fascinating scenes but there's one in particular that recently came to mind. In the mov...
04 March 2016

Addendum to the Fifth Republic

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This is a follow-up discussion to the previous essay: http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-us-fifth-republic.html In th...
09 April 2015

Bearing Witness in Sodom

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As of late, listening to the media makes my head spin. I often find myself not agreeing with anyone or how anyone frames the debate. This is...
27 March 2015

Constantine Defended and Revisited

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Leithart's "Defending Constantine" instantly became popular in the realm of Christian Right academia. We live in a time that ...
28 May 2013

Truth, Myth, and the Baptizing of Lies in the American Church

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Part 3 (Final) Even supposed America-hating liberals praise the military. Just tonight Admiral Stockdale came up in a conversation. For th...
24 April 2013

Neo-Byzantinism: Russia and the New/Old Paradigm Wars

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Russia’s actions have to be understood in light of history. Americans have often made the mistake of assuming that the world really and tru...
24 March 2013

Unipolar v. Multipolar Paradigms

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The Cold War vis-a-vis Eurasian History While some heralded the end of the Cold War as the victory of Democracy others were more sceptical...

Geopolitical Entanglements- Syria and Russia

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Watching the unfolding tragedy in Syria I've often been shocked at how blatantly the American media seems to be trying to push the Ameri...