Bryan T. McGraw

Bryan T. McGraw is the department chair and an associate professor of politics and dean of social sciences at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL, where he teaches political theory and works on perfecting his pulled pork BBQ.

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Why Christian Pragmatism Isn’t Realistic Enough

Simply being good in order to do good is not enough. That is true. But simply being skilled—to have what Machiavelli calls virtú (as opposed to virtue)—in order to do good is also not enough.

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Neither Yoder Nor Foucault: Politics & the Problem of Violence in Andy Crouch’s Playing God

Crouch’s book is a masterful and sorely needed correction regarding the nature and possibilities of power but it stops short precisely at that place where 21st-century American Christians are most perplexed with power: politics.