Austin Knuppe is an assistant professor of political science at Utah State University specializing in Foreign Policy, International Politics, Middle East Politics, and War. He's the author of a recent book on how Iraqis survived the Islamic State.
He’s also the author of a recent American Reformer article on Middle Eastern Christians, and he joined me on the podcast to discuss the fate of Christianity in the Middle East. Once sizable Christian populations there have declined noticeably in the past 100 years. He argues that America's Global War on Terror, however, has accelerated the decline of Christian communities in Middle Eastern countries.
This is a very informative and important conversation about some of the world’s oldest Christian populations, ones that are frequently overlooked by the American church.
AUSTIN KNUPPE: The Fate of Middle Eastern Christians