Christian Ethics

Is There a Right to Immigrate? Review of “Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice”

Christians are called to love all persons, but this does not justify evading border regulations.

The Whig Case for Toryism

American conservatives can learn from our Tory forerunners the importance of reverence and order, realism and romance, and ultimately the poetry that is the soul of our civilization

The World Needs a Cold Warrior Pope

The next pope must embody the courage of John Paul II in unequivocally condemning the aggression and human rights violations of China, Russia, and Hamas

Optimizing Children is Nothing New

The advent of technologies allowing parents to select embryos with superior genetics is just the latest step down the road to the total commodification of life

The Moral Injury of the Cross

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross is the greatest expression in all time of the moral injury between God and humanity.

America and the Vatican Must Confront China on Human Rights, Starting with Jimmy Lai

The plight of imprisoned Hong Konger Jimmy Lai is a case study in the failure of the Vatican to stand up for freedom of conscience and other universal rights Christian humanism upholds

T.S. Eliot and the Need for Lent

As the season of Lent begins, T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” provides ever-relevant lessons for overcoming spiritual lassitude characteristic of modernity

The Compromises Between Prophetic and Political Christianity

Christianity in public life finds expression through two contrasting yet complementary forms: the prophetic and the political. Both are necessary for authentic Christian witness

‘Jesus Christ: Refugee’ and Other Fallacies in the Immigration Debate

In debates around immigration, you see too much of the platitudinous, vapid moralizing that often passes for serious political thought in evangelical circles

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