Tai Ji Men and That Marriage of Liberty and Responsibility We Call Democracy
Democracy should be continuously stress-tested, verified, and criticized, but passion should always accompany devotion. When democracy fails, civil society fails as well.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Marco Respinti is an Italian professional journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), essayist, translator, and lecturer. He has contributed and contributes to several journals and magazines both in print and online, both in Italy and abroad. Author of books and chapter in books, he has translated and/or edited works by, among others, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Régine Pernoud and Gustave Thibon. A Senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. educational organization based in Mecosta, Michigan), he is also a founding member as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for European Renewal (a non-profit, non-partisan pan-European educational organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands). A member of the Advisory Council of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, in December 2022, the Universal Peace Federation bestowed on him, among others, the title of Ambassador of Peace. From February 2018 to December 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Family News. He serves as Director-in-Charge of the academic publication The Journal of CESNUR and Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights.
Democracy should be continuously stress-tested, verified, and criticized, but passion should always accompany devotion. When democracy fails, civil society fails as well.
The Taiwan International Religious Freedom Summit very practically focused on what is possible, not chasing only what is desirable. A modest proposal can help that country to confront the constant threat posed by Communist China.
Charity is chiefly a cultural act, thus inherently educational. When its persecutors are forgotten, Tai Ji Men’s constant education to a culture of charity will remain.
The fourth training event hosted by Rushan Abbas’s organization was a great success. “Bitter Winter” was there.
Religious liberty is the first human right. It remains the public enemy #1 of the CCP.
What if a politician advocating for a Christianity-shaped worldview is not a Christian?
In yet another case of abduction for forced conversion to Islam and marriage, the police freed the girl but her future fate remains unclear.
The great English writer died on September 2, 1973. An important testimony emerges from an unpublished letter of January 1969.
A visit to the exhibition “Bergerac and Protestantism” and a dialogue on “basic orthodoxy” as a need in our secular age.
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