Baroness Cox of Queensbury was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights. She visits the most forgotten people in the world, often in highly dangerous conditions, to carry their stories of abuse and persecution back to the west. She has been under fire many times while taking aid to war victims in Armenia, Sudan and Indonesia. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, recipient of the Wilberforce Award and of the Commander Cross of the Order of...
Baroness Cox of Queensbury was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for internatio...
Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world, understanding religion is vital in accurately reporting and interpreting current events. The authors of Blind Spot argue that all too frequently journalists and commentators do not take religion seriously and therefore fail to grasp the religious context of the news. Blind Spot's essays examine news stories reported by major media sources in which key religious dimensions were ignored, overlooked, or misrepresented. These stories...
Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world, understand...
Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world, understanding religion is vital in accurately reporting and interpreting current events. The authors of Blind Spot argue that all too frequently journalists and commentators do not take religion seriously and therefore fail to grasp the religious context of the news. Blind Spot's essays examine news stories reported by major media sources in which key religious dimensions were ignored, overlooked, or misrepresented. These stories...
Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world, understand...
Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religiousgroup, according to studiesby the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others.
A woman is caught with a Bible and publicly shot to death.An elderly priest is abducted and never seen again. Three buses full ofstudents and teachers are struck by roadside bombs. These are not casualties ofa war. These are Christian believers being persecuted for their faith in thetwenty-first century.
Many Americans do not understand that Christians today...
Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religiousgroup, according to studiesby the Pew Research Center, Newsweek...
DONALD J TRUMP "GOD IN THE PITS was EXCELLENT" "BRILLIANT ... must reading" --Futures Magazine "DYNAMIC--a true page-turner" --Barron's "JUST WHAT THE PITS NEED" --Institutional Investor "One of the most unexpected stories to emerge from the trading floor" --Chicago Sun Times "Poignant and sensitively written." --Kansas City Times ..".has the confidence of a Christian with four aces..." --Kirkus Mark Andrew Ritchie (featured in Schwager's best-selling Market Wizards II) grew up in the poverty and strangeness of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town. The...
DONALD J TRUMP "GOD IN THE PITS was EXCELLENT" "BRILLIANT ... must reading" --Futures Magazine "DYNAMIC--a true page-turner" --Barron's "JUST WHAT THE...