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The Myth of Modern Jihad

  • By
  • Robert Wright,
  • New America Foundation
June 29, 2010 |

It would be an understatement to say that Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, pleaded guilty last week. “I’m going to plead guilty a hundred times over,” Shahzad told the judge. Why so emphatic? Because Shahzad is proud of himself. “I consider myself a Mujahid, a Muslim soldier,” he said.

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The Price of Assassination

  • By
  • Robert Wright,
  • New America Foundation
April 13, 2010 |

I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me 20 years ago that America would someday be routinely firing missiles into countries it’s not at war with. For that matter, I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me a few months ago that America would soon be plotting the assassination of an American citizen who lives abroad.

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Campaign Seeks to Eliminate Religious Discrimination in Workplace | AXcess News

April 10, 2010

Al-Suwaij joined the New America Foundation Thursday as part of a panel discussion about religion in the workplace and a new campaign called Workplace ...

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Christian Soldiers

  • By
  • Robert Wright,
  • New America Foundation
March 16, 2010 |

Last Friday night a New York Times headline underwent an online transformation. The article formerly known as “A Christian Overture to Muslims Has Its Critics” acquired a new billing: “A Dispute on Using the Koran as a Path to Jesus.”

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Dayo Olopade on the Obama Administration's Faith-Based Initiatives

September 15, 2009

Dayo Olopade, a new Schwartz Fellow at New America, is taking questions today on the Obama Administration's faith-based initiatives in a live chat co-hosted by Politico.

You may participate in the chat below, or on the Politico website, starting at noon ET.

UPDATE: This chat has concluded, but you can read the transcript below. New America and Politico will be co-hosting chats mid-day each Tuesday.

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A Grand Bargain Over Evolution

  • By
  • Robert Wright,
  • New America Foundation
August 22, 2009 |

The "war" between science and religion is notable for the amount of civil disobedience on both sides. Most scientists and most religious believers refuse to be drafted into the fight. Whether out of a live-and-let-live philosophy, or a belief that religion and science are actually compatible, or a heartfelt indifference to the question, they're choosing to sit this one out.

Still, the war continues, and it's not just a sideshow. There are intensely motivated and vocal people on both sides making serious and conflicting claims.

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The Evolution of God

June 7, 2009

In The Evolution of God, award-winning and bestselling author Robert Wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery of crucial importance to the present moment: There is a pattern in the evolution of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and a "hidden code" in their scriptures. Reading these scriptures in light of the circumstances surrounding their creation, Wright reveals the forces that have repeatedly moved the Abrahamic faith away from belligerence and intolerance to a higher moral plane.

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One Nation: Religion and Politics 2008

  • By
  • David Gray,
  • New America Foundation
August 26, 2008 |

Faith in the Democratic Platform

It is interesting at the start of the Democratic Convention to note that the draft platform the delegates are beginning to discuss says more about what a faith initiative will not be than what it will be in an Obama administration.

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God's Country

  • By
  • Eliza Griswold,
  • New America Foundation
March 1, 2008 |

It was an ordinary soccer pitch: sparse tufts of grass and reddish soil surrounded by cinder-block homes. The two candidates stood on opposite sides of the field as the people of Yelwa, a town of 30,000 in central Nigeria, lined up behind them one May morning in 2002 to vote. Whoever had more supporters would lead the town’s council. And whoever led the council would control the certificates of indigeneship: the papers certifying that Yelwa was their home, and that they had a right there to land, jobs, and scholarships.

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Serving Our Young Adults

  • By
  • David Gray,
  • New America Foundation
October 15, 2007 |

Many churches are developing programs to serve young adults. Many are investing in young adult coordinators in order to help grow their church.

However, there is another reason for churches to focus on young adults -- the critical needs of the early young adult population in our nation.

The violence at Virginia Tech last April perpetrated by a disturbed young adult is a tragedy beyond belief. It calls attention to the challenges faced by an often overlooked age group.

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