The key to a nations ability to administer authority is an understanding among its individual leaders that theirs is not the ultimate authority. And the key to a nation’s ability to harbor morality is an understanding among its individual leaders that their common sense is not the ultimate source of morality.
Drew GriffinJanuary 2, 2019
Can a Christian support using sleep deprivation against known terrorists to gain valuable intelligence that could save lives?
Daniel StrandMarch 23, 2018
Why is the just war tradition seemingly so easily abused?
Marc LiVeccheApril 25, 2017
In the most recent Fox News Debate, Donald Trump proved himself unfit to lead our nation’s military. He demonstrated that he thinks our airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines will jump when he snaps his fingers to do the abhorrent — murder women and children.
Marc LiVeccheMarch 4, 2016
Reinhold Niebuhr exposed the assumptions of progressive Christianity and helped create the political theology of “Christian realism”, which sought a more biblical view of how the Christian citizen can live responsibly within a civilization in crisis.
Joseph LoconteDecember 28, 2015
Protestants have called the good of peace and justice that governments supply “common grace.” Why? First, it’s common to all people regardless of race or creed or geography. Second, and more controversial, it is a grace. Yes, it is grace!!
Daniel StrandDecember 15, 2015
Leaving aside the rightness or wrongness of any particular policy, it seems clear that there is a deep division between the worlds of policy making and the worlds of moral reflection.
Daniel StrandNovember 17, 2015
Morality and interests unite in our duty to destroy ISIS.
Marc LiVeccheNovember 16, 2015
The following is based on remarks delivered at the Providence launch party, Friday, November 6th. The recorded event is available on our Facebook page. For those who prefer to read, in the days ahead, we will post additional transcriptions. Watch for them!
Marc LiVeccheNovember 9, 2015