From the President
Converting the Foreign Policy Elite
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 24 February 2010
Writing in The Washington Post, IGE President Chris Seiple reviews the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' recent report on religion and the making of U.S. foreign policy.
Change in Pakistan Requires Respect, Reconciliation, and Religious Freedom
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 09 February 2010
Dr. Chris Seiple offers reflections and recommendations about his recent trip to Pakistan at The Christian Science Monitor.
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From the President: Engaging Conservative Islam
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 04 February 2010
In this 2007 reprise, Dr. Chris Seiple recounts a powerful engagement with conservative Islam in Kyrgyzstan and the Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan.From the President: Christmas Politics
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 06 December 2009
In this 2003 reprise, Chris Seiple argues that the political context of Jesus' birth is an essential chapter of the Christmas narrative. "Putting Christ back in Christmas," he writes, "means putting the 'King of the Jews' back in the story."A Thankful Body
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 02 November 2009
Christians can sometimes think that following Christ means proving a "successful" Christian life only by converting people or trying to transform culture into a more moralistic place. But Christ calls his followers foremost to obedience, a lesson that should be learned and internalized within the church.
Love of God & Love of Neighbor: A Call to Action
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 07 October 2009
I can't love God unless I love my neighbor, and that love requires that I be willing to actively promote and defend his/her opportunity to believe something different than I do.
Albright to Anchor IGE's 10th Anniversary
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 08 September 2009
September 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. As such we would do well to recall the wisdom of England's Halford Mackinder, who in 1919 tried desperately to explain "neighborliness and fraternal duty" to the victorious allies at Versailles .....
U.S Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 04 August 2009
It is not often that one hosts an influential Pashtun Islamist for 10 days. So, when the chief minister of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), Akram Khan Durrani, visited America.....
Why IGE? Why Now?
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 30 June 2009
The challenges of the 21st century can be distilled to a single question: how do we live with and work across our deepest differences? Every issue we face as a planet is foremost an issue of how we choose to engage one another.
A Practical Theology for Complex Places
By Dr. Chris Seiple on 02 June 2009
I am often asked two things as a Christian working for a religious freedom organization: Why does a Christian work for the religious freedom of non-Christians not to follow Christ; and How can you be a Christian and still talk to Islamists and Communists?
More Articles...
- Every Effort
- Ten Terms NOT Useful to Engaging Muslims Worldwide
- IGE: Your Global Neighborhood Weather Station
- The Two-Sustainable-States Solution
- Humility's Hope
- The Road to Reconciliation
- Loving Locally in an Election Year
- Conference on Constitutional Democracy in Africa: A Brief Report
- Seizing the Middle East Moment
- The Promised Land’s Existential Election
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