Pandemics have historically been catalysts for political, economic, and social change. From Thucydides, Prokopios, and Ibn Khaldun, historians of the past who lived through the great pandemics of their day charted the ghastly toll of these invisible killers.

Tom Holland, author of the recently published “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World,” has done a great service to current discussions on the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization.

Worship of a new deity, “Healthiness,” has only a passing resemblance to actual health. This new god is part of a small pantheon that centers around the chief deity, a “Science” that supposedly holds the key to understanding everything in the universe, from morality to medicine.

Not every plague is a judgment, but every plague is a revelation.

Perhaps one of my favorite tools in teaching Western civilization to undergrads at Arizona State University is to show clips…

The most profound and powerful reasons for religious freedom are Christian reasons, and they extend not only to Christians but to all people. In my view this means that there is also a deep theological warrant for international religious freedom.

Cultivating the garden of world order includes tending to the tasks that uphold public safety, execute justice and promote human flourishing.

As we start to look at this whole Christmas phenomenon, it makes sense to begin with the basics. The first questions any sensible person asks about Christmas are pretty straightforward: What event is this holiday supposed to commemorate, and do we know that it actually happened?

Cynical pundits often warn we’re experiencing the “Fall of the American Republic.” Josiah Osgood’s history of the Roman Republic’s fall in “Rome and the Making of a World State” shows how there may be a broad parallel between their age and ours.