Should Christians ever celebrate victory in war if war necessarily entails killing? The answer is that it depends on the war

During Providence‘s Christianity & National Security Conference 2022, Nigel Biggar discusses the history and Biblical perspective on empires, and advocates…

At the Christianity and National Security Conference in Washington, DC, Nigel Biggar, Daniel Strand, and Marc LiVecche participated in a panel discussion about the just war tradition. Biggar covered the tradition for today while Strand talked about Paul Ramsey’s contribution and LiVecche explained Reinhold Niebuhr’s relationship with the tradition.

In Christian circles, there is the view that there’s something problematic about the very concept of a right as a property of an individual.

For more than a century, the Royal Air Force has made a vital contribution to the military defense of the West.

In Providence’s latest Dark Ops podcast, Executive Editor Marc LiVecche sits down with Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology Nigel Biggar to discuss The Thin Red Line, a 1998 war film.

On reading Stephen Baskerville’s view of Brexit and its wake, I hear the sound of an axe grinding. I can’t tell what the axe is, but its grinding is loud and unmistakeable: it sounds through a relentless lack of charity. Quite what’s hounding Dr Baskerville, I do not know and will not presume to speculate. But the distorting effects are right up-front, and I must gainsay them.

The carnage one hundred years ago on the Somme was appalling. And because of Haig’s excessive strategic ambition, it was inefficiently appalling. But that didn’t make it futile.

Christian ethicists should read less moral theology and political philosophy and more history.