Recent Articles
Research on Religious Freedom and Security: What We Know—and Don’t Know
Here’s my latest on Religious Freedom on the Portico blog of the Institute for Global Engagement: Religious freedom is more... Read More
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 More
Our New Research on Historic Scope of Conversion Phenomenon in the MENA region
Our new article in IJFM - conversion to Christianity at levels not seen since the 1st century in the... Read MoreQuotes to ponder
“For those who have experienced dreams and visions Jesus is not just an ideal, not just a historical figure, but a living person who has visited them personally in dreams and who is at work creating a new family for them, healing the sick and rescuing people from extremism.” Read More
Scott Gustafson
Researcher, Extreme Beliefs Group, Managing 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
