While gene-editing and all-seeing orbs belonged to the realm of fantasy in Tolkien’s own time, today these technologies have the capacity to fundamentally reshape societies and the global order of nations

Edmund Walsh’s legacy endures as a fusion of moral conviction and strategic vision, equipping the free world to confront godless tyranny with clarity, courage, and resolve

Retired chaplain Timothy Mallard reflects on the exorcizing the ghosts of war through liturgy, sacrament, and prayer on Memorial Day

John Brown was no Christian nationalist

The pursuit of Augustine’s idea of “tranquillitas ordinis” (tranquility of order) is the ultimate purpose of just war theory and just statecraft

The term “just statecraft” is a novel but needed term that acknowledges the just war framework’s usefulness, not just for foreign policy but all areas of grand strategy

Introducing “just statecraft,” a new term designed to provoke discussion on the nature of responsible national leadership with reference to principles of just war and just peace

Although MLK and Gandhi had much to disagree about with famed Christian realist Reinhold Niebuhr, their similarities are in some ways more pronounced than their differences

Christian Realism is far preferable to Christian Nationalism for emphasizing individual liberty and rightful patriotism without idolizing the state, an ideology, a party, or a demagogue