We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
A 2nd term just introduced the liberal party edges ahead of conservatives but fall short of a majority and is now set to head a minority government. And the unveiling of a new emperor japans north ito formally proclaims his ascension to the chrysanthemum throne the worlds oldest that it terry model. Plus a man in his eightys on the mission of a life piece become a fixture in hong kongs prodemocracy movement we follow him as he puts himself between the police and the protesters. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us journeys defense minister has put forth a plan for the future of Northern Syria on the clay come on by as plan calls for an internationally patrolled security zone. In syria along the border with turkey thats similar to what turkey says it wants to achieve with its own military incursion there the difference is that the zone proposed by the German Defense minister would be under international and not turkish control. Is seen as a possible successor to chancellor merkel
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Acknowledge that nato has serious splits in its unity. Rose gottemoeller welcome to conflicts and we thank you great to be here your boss yan stoltenberg reminded the world recently that nato his mission was to provide credible to terence and defense the fact is that the tyrants is no longer credible and hasnt been for a long time he said why do you say that we dont seem to think were not in the midst of war when i say that because just 5 months ago Americas National Defense Strategy commission painted a pretty dismal picture of the us his ability to protect both itself and his allies the security and well being of the us it said are at greater risk today that at any time in decades america superiority has a road into to a danger. This degree in its ability to defend its allies its partners and its own vital interests is increasingly in doubt thats thats dismal isnt it there are many different fields of how deterrence and defense are conducted today and i think for nato the emphasis tr
By the u. S. Turns off its tracking signal deepening the mystery over where its heading plus. I have never i have never attended a recitation to the essential people. Hong kongs leader goes on the defensive after leaks all the recording reveals her saying she would quit if she could but with the recent protests and helen adela sends out a warning to the u. S. Open field as he moves into the quarter finals its funny and put on quite a so at flushing meadows that despite dropping a set over how the 2014 stacking line till i. Say lets begin with the war in yemen a group of u. N. Experts today releasing a report saying all parties in the cons. It may be involved in war crimes the report accuses the. Coalition of killing civilians and airstrikes and deliberately denying them whilst on the brink of famine it also blames the coalition for using starvation as a water act like the u. S. Britain and france were criticized for their role in selling weapons and providing intelligence reports also