14+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1036+ words) Total Depravity: The Guardrail Protestant Christian Nationalism Needs American Reformer Calvin's Realism and the Limits of the Christian Magistrate In a recent interview on Know What You Believe with Michael Horton, Kevin Vallier critiqued the resurgence of Protestant Christian nationalism....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (681+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought In a little under two weeks, hundreds of other officers of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and I will gather in Louisville, Kentucky, to conduct the business of the church." The partial report is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (201+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought Yet "America First" never meant "America Alone." In addition to a range of initiatives to build new partnerships in Asia and the Middle East in his first term, Trump moved the American embassy in Israel…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (727+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought As primary season rolls along, Donald Trump continues to rack up win after win. His latest endorsee, current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, roundly defeated U. S. Senator John Cornyn, a four-term establishment Republican who was clearly…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (443+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought Following closely on the heels of Leo's X post, 60 Minutes aired its interview with senior American Catholic clerics who publicly declared that the Iran War is unjust according to Catholic just war teaching. It is…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (396+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought I told my stepson to take the meeting with the chairman, even if he doesn't think he'll join the committee. I told him the reasons why, and the more I think about them, the more…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (529+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought For a president who is constantly accused of inciting wanton acts of violence, the most prominent examples of political violence in American life continue to come from Trump's detractors. Deep in the throes of Trump…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (289+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought I love the Puritans. The greatest among them number among the greatest Americans and Christians. But'hear me out'they weren't perfect. The Puritans'more broadly, the English Dissenters (on both sides of the pond)'had their distinctive…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (458+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought To understand America, we must begin at the beginning. And we should consider the cause before the effect. What brought the first Englishmen to New England? What motivated them? What made them tick? This is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (438+ words) Protestant Social and Political Thought To Hurd's credit, rather than blasting Protestantism on the way out, he gave a short explanation about why he went to Rome. Aquinas's "moral goodness," as well as his "knowledge in science," was the initial…...