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The Holy Week Reader—Friday: Kavod! The Weight of Glory

Peter Paul Ruben’s extraordinary “Raising of the Cross” helps reflect on Divine love, human flourishing, and the weight of glory.

What Do Conservatives Mean by “Western Civilization”?

When conservatives appeal to “Western civilization,” they are referring to everything they like that has ever come out of Europe and nothing they don’t like, with the line drawn by working backwards from predetermined ideological conclusions. 

Ep. 104 | Political Theology Needs the Old Testament

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.

The Case Against Christian Nationalism

A Christian Realist view, different from nearly all forms of Christian Nationalism, is that social righteousness advances haphazardly and providentially.

In Defense of National Interests

With the publication of the new “National Defense Strategy,” it’s a good time to remember that national interest is a good thing. Even for our neighbors.

Against a Christ-less Christianity

Despite growing enthusiasm among secular and formerly secular public intellectuals for Christianity’s civilizational legacy, Christianity divorced from genuine faith in Jesus can never be the answer.

Can Christians Be Patriots?

Defying critics on both left and right, Daniel Darling’s “In Defense of Christian Patriotism” calls on believers to love their country.

Martin Wight’s Postliberal Idealism

In “The Deeper Revolution How Worldviews Shape Western International Politics,” Emily Lange recovers the historically substantial and theologically rich deconstructions of the international system articulated by Martin Wight

Marxist Christianity: The God that Failed

100 years ago, the English translation of Karl Kautsky’s “Foundations of Christianity,” a seminal text in the Marxist interpretation of the history of religion, was published. Though wrong about nearly everything, his material understanding of Christianity has spread far and wide and is thus deserving of a response.

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