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When Wilsonian ideals met European Realpolitik in the wake of the First World War, it was already late. The soon-to-be victorious European powers were already well down the road to carving up the remains of the fallen Ottoman Empire. (more…)
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In an historical moment when the ‘1967 borders’ are referred to as a simple fact—except in the offices of Hamas and their compeers—it is necessary to be reminded that these lines in the sand were the provisional conclusion of six days when blood ran plentifully around and upon them and nothing seemed obvious. (more…)
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Martin Gilbert does not write small books.
It’s a good deal that we have this man around at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that we can read the large works he gave us in the twentieth. (more…)
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The classification of temperament is as at least two millenia old. Some of this effort falls decidely in the the half-baked side of the pan. Yet much of it is decidely helpful in understanding ‘the way we are wired’ and ‘the way we process things’, to use two very modern metaphors of personality typing.
Maybe you’ve never thought of it like that. (more…)
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It is common for modern-day Christians to suppose that ease and wellbeing are signals of God’s favor. Even indications that one is ‘doing the right thing’ are often assumed, primarily, to depend upon one’s ‘peace’ or at least upon unopposed forward progress.
The apostle Paul would not have recognized this convenient correlation. (more…)
Canter Bridge 