General Articles

Sources of data and research methodologies concerning anti-Christian violence in Nigeria have become a bone of contention between religious freedom advocates and secular academia, the media, and humanitarian workers in the West, writes Dennis Petri in his Substack newsletter Five4Faith (

While the secular “literary ecosystem” is in decline, a Christian book culture seems to be thriving, Nadya Williams writes in the newsletter Providence (February 17).

Secularism appears to be losing ground in Sweden, though like other countries, it is too soon to say that religion is overshadowing non-belief, writes Joel Halldorf in the online newsletter of the Christian journal Comment (January 8).

In Central Asia, some Sufi groups are attempting to balance “the preservation of tradition with the demands of digital culture,” write Bekzhan Azhimov, Nurlan Kairbekov, Zholaman Bulan and Tussipkhan Imammadi (scholars based at Kazakh universities) in an article published in the Occasional Pa