On this episode, historian John Connelly, professor of history at UC Berkeley and an expert on east central Europe, shares insights into the war in Ukraine.
The German synod expresses a different Catholic culture, one rooted in Vatican II, but without the qualms about the compatibility between modernity and faith.
Indifference toward the migrant crisis has lately become even more tinged with hostility to migrants themselves—and opposition to the right to migrate at all.
It is time to be clear and firm with both Russia and Ukraine, encouraging them to adopt the Minsk II protocols rather than escalating military tensions.
In Russia, the state uses the Orthodox Church to advance its revisionist agenda, while the Church uses the state to fulfill its own hegemonic ambitions.
When Myroslav Marynovych was arrested at twenty-eight, he was agnostic. When he was released ten years later, he was a Christian ethicist and political thinker.
