North Korea and the full meaning of ‘I and Thou’
“The sealed border was not just at the 38th parallel, but everywhere, in each person’s heart, blocking the past and choking off the future.”
—Suki Kim, Without You, There is No Us
Tagged: Nick Gier
The myth of a monochrome ‘Western’ civilization
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist If Western civilization is defined by religion and culture, then Mexico—with its Catholic heritage and historic ties to European monarchies—is unquestionably an outpost of “the West.” But for Trump...
Sex Abuse among Evangelicals worse than for Catholics
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Protestants are going to have to accept the fact that we have many similarities with our Catholic brothers and sisters when it comes to how we have failed to...
The Europeans pay more than their fair share
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist One would expect that in anticipation of meeting with the heads of NATO’s 29 nations, our so-called president would at least learn some basic facts about this nearly 70-year-old...
The crusaders versus the infidels: Moscow’s muscular Christianity
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist After learning that New St. Andrews College now has permission to take over more of downtown Moscow, I thought I would check out its website. I had not done...
Vietnam: The New Asian Tiger
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist It was March 24, 2010, and I was at Bangkok’s new international airport, the fifth busiest in Asia. Along with my travel companions, I boarded Air Vietnam flight 830...
Obama, Trump or Putin: Will the real Antichrist please stand up?
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “We just can’t work with him because our base thinks he’s the Antichrist.” —Barack Obama paraphrasing GOP leaders (8/25/16) President Putin is the Antichrist, and Russia is the 10-horned...
Donald Trump’s Right-Wing European Allies: Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, and Danes Turn against Immigrants
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Many countries are shifting from a universal civil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort. —The Economist (11/19/6) In 1992 Francis Fukuyama published a book with a very strange...
Refugees and Immigrants are People, Too: Let’s Welcome These New Americans
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. —Jesus, Matthew 25:40 Ultimately, we fear...
Refugees and immigrants are people, too
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. —Matthew 25:40 Ultimately, we fear this...
