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.
Caleb AngellJanuary 13, 2026
Defying critics on both left and right, Daniel Darling’s “In Defense of Christian Patriotism” calls on believers to love their country.
Michael LuccheseJanuary 7, 2026
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
Robert JoustraDecember 1, 2025
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.
Shiv PariharNovember 4, 2025
How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we are born?
Tim MiloschOctober 16, 2025
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the concept of “symphonia,” where church and state are not separate but work in harmony, has long been the ideal
Lauren KnightsOctober 10, 2025
For decades, mainline protestantism acted as America’s de-facto establishment church. Today, evangelicalism functions as an unofficial state religion for much of America
Miles SmithSeptember 25, 2025
Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society
Mark J. LarsonSeptember 9, 2025
The results of the Baylor/Harvard Global Flourishing Study survey have just been released, showing empirically the importance of religious observance as one of the most significant factors in self-reported wellbeing from across 22 countries
Paul MarshallMay 1, 2025