Both The Tenth Parallel and Taming the Gods are concerned with the perceived growing role of religion as a problem in international affairs. The tenth parallel is the circle of latitude several ...

With the news that two bombs sent from Yemen were addressed to Jewish communal organizations in Chicago, it would be easy to imagine that Jews are uniquely positioned in the crosshairs of a global ...

The 10th Parallel is the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator. More than half of the world's Muslims live along the parallel; so do most of the world's Christians. Guest host Rachel Martin ...

In the winter of 2003, writer Eliza Griswold traveled to the northern capital of Sudan with Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader and son of Billy Graham, to meet with Omar al-Bashir, the president ...

In "The Tenth Parallel," journalist Eliza Griswold delivers an impressive account of religious conflict in parts of Africa and Asia that rarely make Western headlines. Griswold spent seven years ...

Blame it on the “tsetse fly belt” dividing north and south Africa. Or the schizophrenic monsoons in Asia. Blame it, Eliza Griswold suggests, on overweening hubris and nearsightedness. But don’t blame ...