Two decades into the twenty-first century Mongolia is
something of an outlier, an outpost nation that straddles North and East Asia
and by some accounts represents the eastern edge of Central Asia. Within this
vast zone, Mongolia (it could be said) represents the last hope of Western
influencers.
https://eurasianet.org/rift-widens-between-armenian-church-government
This is a somewhat hopeless debate to wade into. There are
glaring assumptions being made that must be questioned. Armenia is viewed by
its Orthodox Church and the religious sections of its populace as a sacral
state. As such, Nagorno-Karabakh is in reality Artsakh – part of the ancient
conglomeration of Armenian kingdoms. As a people they have lost so much and
have been brought so low, that for some a line has been drawn. No further. They
will not brook any further humiliation at the hands of Turks and will not
tolerate any political party that even entertains capitulation. For some this
isn't just politics or nationalism – it's theological.
https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Supreme-Court-bans-interfaith-marriages-58840.html
Legally the issue cited in the article concerns the
jurisprudence of an Islamic nation – and to what degree Sharia or even a
limited or hybrid-Sharia can accommodate a Muslim-interfaith marriage. This
issue on its face is not a Christian concern apart from questions of civil
freedom and restrictions that result from a sacralist-Islamist framework.
The US Establishment doesn't want to jeopardize this key tool
by allowing it to become a political football. Also this vote and rejection of
Paul's amendment must be viewed in light of the Trump presidency and the damage
he did to NATO by suggesting Article 5 might be subject to question. Paul's
amendment more or less is a pathway to the same argument and uncommitted
position and as such not only weakens the treaty but effectively violates the
terms Washington already agreed to.
I post this with a few comments just to call attention to the
kind of Two Kingdom Theology which needs to be rejected and opposed. It caught
my eye because the author (Tom Hervey) was critical of Larry Ball, a Theonomist
writer I have countered on many an occasion. Happy to see someone answering him,
I was nevertheless mostly disappointed in Hervey's response.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183140547/road-to-surrender-revisits-the-final-weeks-of-world-war-ii
Once again a mainstream reporter appeals to narratives that
are hardly Left-wing or 'woke' but instead belong on FOX or Newsmax. The divide
appealed to by so many on the Right is blurry at best and artificial at worst.
And keep in mind this is Evan Thomas who spent decades working at supposedly
Left-wing magazines like Time and Newsweek. Apparently it's Left-wing these
days to produce an apologia for Truman's use of atomic bombs, for that in the
end is the real purpose of his work. He defends their use, tries to argue that
their use was moral, and that those who made the choice to use them are in fact
heroes.
https://evangelicalfocus.com/features/22760/the-harassment-of-italian-evangelical-churches
Some of the events reported here are limited to the city of Rome
as the article acknowledges. I remember back in the 1990's when I spent a fair
bit of time there that Protestant churches couldn't ring bells and so forth –
orders from the Vatican, or so it was said. The Pope does indeed possess a degree
of unofficial leverage within the larger city.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/19/emergence-of-a-new-non-alignment/
A New World Order is emerging but it's not the one predicted
by George HW Bush in the early 1990's. In fact this is the order he was trying
to prevent, the nightmare scenario US power-brokers have been trying to stave
off since that time. Ironically, they brought it on themselves but that's a long
story - one that cannot be explored here.
Fesko begs many questions in this piece. From his adoption of
the culture's language of 'service' to the tacitly endorsed feminism in
speaking of a military career, he simply assumes in good Kuyperian fashion that
the military is a viable option for the Christian.
This is a postscript to the Christian Kids in State Colleges piece even though these comments are largely restricted to primary and high school settings.
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2023/06/inbox-christian-kids-in-state-colleges-i.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65428204
By all accounts, there is a spectrum to modern feminism. Some
feminists hate men and turn toward androgyny or ironically to an emulation of
masculinity. Other forms of feminism celebrate femininity but it is recast and
breaks with older forms and understandings of what that meant – often in forms
of libertine expression – a certain conception of womanhood turned up a few
notches as it were. Sometimes as a concept it begins to breakdown and blur and even
poses as being anti-feminist – and yet ultimately is part of the same cultural subversion
that has dismantled the older understandings of womanhood that once prevailed
in society and certainly within the Church.
