The solidification of British national identity around Protestant piety, liberty, empire, and commerce played a significant yet under-discussed role in abolishing slavery
Eamonn BellinMarch 13, 2025
Sean McGever’s “Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield” sheds light on the multifaceted story of 18th C. Evangelicals & slavery
Daniel N. GullottaAugust 14, 2024
“Gain all you can”; “Save all you can”; “Give all you can.” This was John Wesley’s maxim for gaining and spending money.
Erik MatsonOctober 11, 2023
Burke is a defender of the institutions of Christian civilization. Understanding this liberates us from the need to defend failing institutions simply because those institutions happen to exist.
Timothy CutlerNovember 9, 2022
The Empress of Austria-Hungary and the Spiritual Significance of Authority
Paul MarshallNovember 1, 2022
John Wesley’s basic Augustinianism created a nonconformist populism that was intent on renewing the people. While Wesleyanism did not always live up to its core commitments, the heart of its political theology resides in a fusion of Wesleyan Augustinianism with nonconformist populism.
Dale M. CoulterSeptember 15, 2020
To get any insight at all into what Jesus’ childhood and upbringing were like, you have to do something that sometimes makes Protestants uncomfortable: study Mary.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 3, 2019
Many Christian elites will not like Donald Trump’s United Nations speech this week, whose key phrase was “we reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism.”
Mark TooleySeptember 26, 2018