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Picturing the War ‘No One Cares About’
McCullin’s photographs appeared in the London Sunday Times Magazine in June: a spread of color images of injured men, homemade rockets, and barefoot Biafran soldiers. “Even the Vietcong don’t operate barefoot,” McCullin commented. The accompanying story was written by famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who identified as Biafran and described the Biafran cause as an existential one. “The strength of Biafra lies in the fact that it is fighting a people’s war.
Picturing the War ‘No One Cares About’
McCullin’s photographs appeared in the London Sunday Times Magazine in June: a spread of color images of injured men, homemade rockets, and barefoot Biafran soldiers. “Even the Vietcong don’t operate barefoot,” McCullin commented. The accompanying story was written by famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who identified as Biafran and described the Biafran cause as an existential one. “The strength of Biafra lies in the fact that it is fighting a people’s war.
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War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals' support for Putin
(The Conversation) — In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange request” given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers “pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost.” The backlash was fast and direct. Graham had not solicited prayers for Ukraine, some observers commented.
War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals’ support for Putin as a conservative leader
In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a "strange request" given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers "pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost." The backlash was fast and direct. Graham had not solicited prayers for Ukraine, some observers commented.
Ukraine war tests evangelicals’ support for Vladimir Putin as leader of conservative values
From left to right, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, his wife ,Svetlana, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, attend an Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on April 24, 2011. UPI File Photo | License Photo April 8 (UPI) -- In February, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a "strange request" given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine.
War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals' support for Putin as a leader of conservative values
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War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals' support for Putin as a leader of conservative values Original
In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange request” given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers “pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost.” The backlash was fast and direct. Graham had not solicited prayers for Ukraine, some observers commented.
On the importance of web archiving
Web archiving has received increased attention in the popular media over the past few years. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which can replay past versions of web pages, has been mentioned in news articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post and has been highlighted by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and HBO’s John Oliver. The Wayback Machine itself has been the subject of articles in the New Yorker and The Atlantic (in 2015 and 2017).
The Long Counterrevolution: United States-Latin America Security Cooperation
Since at least the Spanish-American War, the United States has helped develop Latin American militaries and police forces, providing training, up-to-date technologies, and technical assistance.
Listen, Learn, Practice: Yoga Spirituality for Atheists
I practice Iyengar yoga. Yoga is a discipline. It is grounded in a set of teachings about the body and the mind. What this practice has to do with spirituality is, for me, an open question. There is no question about one thing: to do yoga in America today is to make a statement. Doing yoga says that you are young and flexible, or maybe just that you are older and determined.
This is why American evangelicals have forged an alliance with Putin
Rev. Franklin Graham speaks to attendees at a stop in Lincoln, Neb. during his Decision America tour in 2016. (Matt A.J./Flickr) The close relationship between American evangelicals and Russia has lately been discussed widely in the news media.
Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)In 2015, Graham famously visited Russia, where he had a warm meeting with President Vladimir Putin. On that trip, Putin reportedly explained that his mother had kept her Christian faith even under communist rule.
Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals
The close relationship between American evangelicals and Russia has lately been discussed widely in the news media. In particular, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint in July against a Russian woman, Maria Butina, for trying to use the National Prayer Breakfast, a star-studded affair, as a “back channel of communication” with prominent American religious and political leaders.
What American Evangelicals See In Putin
The close relationship between American evangelicals and Russia has lately been discussed widely in the news media. In particular, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint in July against a Russian woman, Maria Butina, for trying to use the National Prayer Breakfast, a star-studded affair, as a “back channel of communication” with prominent American religious and political leaders.
A Kind of Homelessness: Evangelicals of Color in the Trump Era
Before the 2016 election, Nikki Toyama-Szeto had thought of the term “evangelical” as neutral. “It was about theology,” she told me recently. She had a long history working with evangelical organizations like International Justice Mission and Intervarsity, and as the executive director of Evangelicals for Social Action, she was a well-known speaker and activist in evangelical circles. Her faith had been central to affirming her own racial and gender identities.
Beth Moore represents the future of the global church
Moore, one of the nation’s best-known Southern Baptists and known for her ministry to women, talks about her own “complications.” She lists one in particular — aging. As Moore, 61, tells a funny story about wanting her body parts to operate in harmony, she also insists that life gets better as you get older.
Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham
When Billy Graham died in February of this year, many of the tributes referred to him as “America’s Pastor”—and as the person who had preached the Christian gospel to more people than anyone else in history. But as a number of people pointed out, he represented primarily an older, largely white and conservative tradition of Protestantism. For the nation’s Catholics, liberal Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews who make up the majority of Americans today he was hardly “America’s” pastor.
Perspective | How Beth Moore is helping to change the face of evangelical leadership
About US is a new initiative by The Washington Post to cover issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Beth Moore is standing onstage before a large audience of women at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Tex.
Why Billy Graham Was Determined To Globalize Evangelicalism
Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at the age of 99, may have been “America’s Pastor,” but he was also a man of the world. From the early days of his ministry, when he visited U.S. military forces in Korea, to his quiet message of healing at Washington Cathedral in the aftermath of September 11, Graham was a frequent commentator on—and participant in—global politics.
Evangelicals and Jerusalem | Contending Modernities
Essay posted in conjunction with Georgetown’s Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Are evangelicals the magic ingredient in the recipe that led Trump to claim he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital? Yes and no.
Global Faith, Worldly Power
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present.
Queering America and the world
“We had him down as a rent boy,” remarked a bartender in Brussels about Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected jihadists in the recent Paris attacks. Several reports noted that Abdeslam frequented gay bars and flirted with other men. These revelations were difficult to slot into existing media narratives and stood in uneasy relation to his posited allegiance with the group best known in the United States as ISIS.
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since ...
books.google.com - "A wonderfully original and compelling study, essential for understanding the complex relations between the US and the nations and peoples of the Mideast. McAlister argues powerfully that American interests in the Mideast range far beyond the realm of foreign policy to become of paramount importance...
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