James Diddams is the Managing Editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy. His writing has been featured in Christianity Today, First Things, Providence, Mere Orthodoxy, Law & Liberty, The American Conservative, The National Interest, and the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty Online. He graduated from Wheaton College (IL) and his website is jamesdiddams.org.
Will Japan revise its constitution by expanding the role of its military to counter China? Joshua Walker, President of the Japan Society, joins Editor Diddams to discuss the uniquely important U.S-Japan relationship since 1853
James Diddams & Joshua W. WalkerApril 6, 2026
Why should Christians care about a classical, liberal arts education? Managing Editor James Diddams & Nadya Williams discuss on the latest Provcast
Nadya Williams & James DiddamsMarch 20, 2026
Providence editor James Diddams and Biola’s Tim Milosch discuss how the Old Testament helps correct three major excesses in modern political theology: pacifism, propheticism, and cosmopolitanism on the latest Foreign Policy Provcast.
Tim Milosch & James DiddamsMarch 13, 2026
Does Operation EPIC FURY fall into the category of a ‘just war’? Providence editors James Diddams and Marc LiVecche discuss with Redeemer University’s Robert Joustra
James Diddams & Robert Joustra & Marc LiVeccheMarch 3, 2026
Has the United States been prioritizing everywhere but the Western Hemisphere? In this episode of the Provcast, Latin America expert Eric Farnsworth makes the case that we should take diplomatic engagement within our own backyard more seriously
Eric Farnsworth & Robert Nicholson & James DiddamsSeptember 2, 2025
The Providence editors discuss the meaning of “Western Civilization” and the legacy of Hiroshima, 80 years later
Marc LiVecche & James Diddams & Mark Tooley & Robert NicholsonJuly 29, 2025
James Diddams and Robert Nicholson interview Redeemer University’s Robert Joustra on the role of the apocalypse and the eschaton in fiction as well as international relations
James Diddams & Robert Nicholson & Robert JoustraJuly 21, 2025
The Provcast team interview Rich Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, to discuss the question of Christian persecution as it relates to US foreign policy
Marc LiVecche & Mark Tooley & James Diddams & Robert Nicholson & Richard GhazalJune 25, 2025
Dr. Farhad Rezaei joins the Provcast to discuss the hard questions around the Israel-Iran conflict, including escalation, American involvement, and regime change
Farhad Rezaei & Marc LiVecche & Mark Tooley & James DiddamsJune 19, 2025
Providence Editor James Diddams and Hamilton Center Fellow Jozef Kosc at the University of Florida discuss the diverse and often non-Islamic sources of Iran’s revolutionary ideology
James Diddams & Jozef Andrew KoscJune 10, 2025