Natural Law

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.

AI, Human Uniqueness, and Public Policy: Why “Image of God” Still Matters in a Secular Age

As AI grows more ubiquitous, lawmakers should look to the doctrine of “imago dei” to keep public policy moored to the needs of human beings as reflections of divinity

Indonesia and the War of Ideas against Radical Islamism

Indonesia, with a majority Muslim population of 280 million, is well-positioned to steer the Islamic world in a direction that is less radical and more friendly to human rights and democracy

Capital Crimes and Punishment: The Matter of Justice 

As America grapples with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we must ask: Can theologically orthodox Christians support the death penalty? Should they?

Rediscovering Common Sense Morality: Review of “Hopeful Realism”

Natural law has too long been neglected as a source of moral reasoning by evangelicals. A new book looks to change that.

Putting Natural Law to Work: Review of Hopeful Realism

A trio of Protestant Christian political science professors argue that evangelicals should be more aware of and attuned to the natural law tradition

Reformed Protestantism: The Progenitor of Modern Political Thought

Paul DeHart’s new book, “Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent,” argues that what we today call “liberalism” cannot be understood in isolation from natural law and the Protestant Reformation

Public Discourse, Political Debate, and Natural Law

America’s founders, amid their religious differences, saw the need for interaction between religion and state that neither coerces nor excludes. Natural law reasoning fits perfectly with this model of church-state relations.

Robert Kagan’s “Antiliberalism” Gives Christianity All the Blame and None of the Credit for American Exceptionalism

Robert Kagan’s new book mistakenly argues that everything bad in America comes from religion and everything good from the Enlightenment