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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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31 July 2026

The Immigration Big Picture

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Caption: “A boat that carried Rohingya refugees across the Andaman Sea remains anchored after the refugees disembarked at a beach in Aceh, Indonesia on 8 January, 2023.” In a July 16, 2026 UN News article, “More than 500 people feared dead in double Myanmar shipwreck tragedy.” It explains that “the passengers were mostly ethnic Rohingya people from Rakhine state who have faced decades of persecution by the Myanmar state.”
In my writing in the last few years, I’ve been preoccupied with the idea of global governance—that is, wondering how effective the mammoth institution of the United Nations is at promoting peace, reducing worldwide poverty, providing better healthcare and corralling nations to tamp down climate change. But it is far from working alone on these challenges. The so-called “plurilateral summit…
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31 July 2026

The Immigration Big Picture

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Caption: “A boat that carried Rohingya refugees across the Andaman Sea remains anchored after the refugees disembarked at a beach in Aceh, Indonesia on 8 January, 2023.” In a July 16, 2026 UN News article, “More than 500 people feared dead in double Myanmar shipwreck tragedy.” It explains that “the passengers were mostly ethnic Rohingya people from Rakhine state who have faced decades of persecution by the Myanmar state.”
In my writing in the last few years, I’ve been preoccupied with the idea of global governance—that is, wondering how effective the mammoth institution of the United Nations is at promoting peace, reducing worldwide poverty, providing better healthcare and corralling nations to tamp down climate change. But it is far from working alone on these challenges. The so-called “plurilateral summit…
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19 June 2026

The Spirit-Filled World of Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman, collage from the Fish and Wildlife Service
Besides numerous children’s books, over a dozen biographies have been penned about Harriet Tubman, the intrepid slave fugitive who went back numerous times to Maryland’s eastern shore to free at least 70 fellow slaves. She is the American hero who will grace our US $20 bill with her image in 2030. My interest here is to probe Tubman’s spiritual life…
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10 April 2026

When Science Is Dismissed

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WMO—Annual global mean temperature anomalies relative to a pre-industrial (1850–1900) baseline.
Clearly, the Trump administration has taken the axe to the American scientific establishment, which, ironically, is the envy of the entire world. The U.S. National Institutes of Health, or NIH, is composed of 24 grantmaking institutes and centers in all. I went to hear Francis Collins, who directed the NIH from 2009 to 2025, talk about a new book of…
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