Molly Worthen writes about the “persecution complex” of American Evangelicals and their ambivalent response to the persecution of Christians in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Today, we learned that the priest of the Anglican Church in Damascus, Syria, is being forced to leave.

On the other hand, here’s today’s example of the persecution complex at work in the US. A Federal court decided that the prayers beginning Forsyth County, NC county commission meetings were unconstitutional. The outcry has been intense. How 95% of a county (the estimated percentage of its 350,000 residents who are Christian) can claim to be a beleaguered and persecuted religious minority is beyond me.