Author: David Mountain

In recent years, environmentalism has received growing support from the leaders of major world religions. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has been a vocal advocate of climate action, even suggesting that caring for the environment should rank alongside feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless as an act of Christian mercy. In 2015, …

Among the various accounts of the First World War that appeared following the 1918 armistice, a little-known post-mortem by a Belgian lieutenant carries a striking assertion. “I was always as disgusted by the misuse of patriotism for the promotion of militarism and imperialism as I was by the prostitution of religious feeling to the purposes …