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The Discerner

Culture and politics, read for meaning. No rage. No mush.

I Filed Pakistan's Courts Under Lost After the Maria Shahbaz Ruling. Then a Muslim Father in Kasur Went Back to the Same Courts for His Own Daughter, and the Judgment He Won May Be the One That Protects Ours.

I Filed Pakistan's Courts Under Lost After the Maria Shahbaz Ruling. Then a Muslim Father in Kasur Went Back to the Same Courts for His Own Daughter, and the Judgment He Won May Be the One That Protects Ours.

A Muslim father in Kasur refused a clerk's empty ledger and won eleven pages from the Lahore High Court. Maria Shahbaz's lawyer says the ruling against her is no longer valid.

I Have Wanted a Texas Textbook to Say This About My Faith for Years. On Friday One Did. Then I Read What the Same Page Says About My Neighbor.

I Have Wanted a Texas Textbook to Say This About My Faith for Years. On Friday One Did. Then I Read What the Same Page Says About My Neighbor.

Texas will teach its students that Christianity built the West and that Islam began in brutality. The board's own experts said the second half does not hold up. A Christian reading of the ninth commandment.

In February I Wanted America to Do Something About Nigeria. On Tuesday a Nigerian General Explained Why the Troops Are Leaving.

In February I Wanted America to Do Something About Nigeria. On Tuesday a Nigerian General Explained Why the Troops Are Leaving.

About two hundred American troops are going home this month. I asked for them in February and then stopped reading. The parable is about duration.

Ten Aid Workers Were Taken in the Nuba Mountains. I Went Looking for Their Religion Before I Went Looking for Their Names.

Ten Aid Workers Were Taken in the Nuba Mountains. I Went Looking for Their Religion Before I Went Looking for Their Names.

Ten names, two sources that disagree, and one woman held five months. The story would not take the shape I wanted.

I Have Prayed for Iran Christians for Years. A Couple on a Canadian Island Went and Made a Bed for One.

I Have Prayed for Iran Christians for Years. A Couple on a Canadian Island Went and Made a Bed for One.

The bill named after her never got a vote. A full quota, a spare room and two people who kept waiting did the work instead.

Fifty Nigerian Clerics Signed a Promise About Their Own Mouths. I Decided It Was Worthless Before I Read What Was In It.

Fifty Nigerian Clerics Signed a Promise About Their Own Mouths. I Decided It Was Worthless Before I Read What Was In It.

More than fifty Christian and Muslim leaders signed an accord in Abuja committing to stop the hate speech. I dismissed it before I read it.

There Is a Sign on the Door of a Church in Minneapolis Naming a Federal Court Order. It Did Not Work.

There Is a Sign on the Door of a Church in Minneapolis Naming a Federal Court Order. It Did Not Work.

They printed the order and hung it on the door. The government says watching is not enforcing.