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What Monks, Mystics and Mosaics Teach us about Religion, Politics and Mission
Um al Rassas and the witness of Byzantine Christians.... Read More
Research on Religious Freedom and Security: What We Know—and Don’t Know
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War in Lebanon: Letter from the President of ABTS
March 10, 2026 Dear friends and partners, Once again, Lebanon finds itself in a war it did not choose,... Read MoreQuotes to ponder
“However, when Paul says that our citizenship is in heaven, this orients the Christian towards a primary identity that is something universal that we can all share with a global body of believers instead of an ethnic basis for belonging.” Read More
Scott Gustafson
Researcher, Extreme Beliefs Group, Director Purpose Global Strategies“First, fostering heterogenous alternative communities in hostile environments poses a powerful antidote to the us/them narrow binary that can lead extremists to question their tightly defined realities.” Read More
