We all know how the story goes at Christmastime: Only the well-behaved children are the ones that get Christmas presents. How many of us as children heard this oft-repeated warning […]
Can weaponry be humane?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on a new piece of weaponry that the United States military has developed. The sophistication of the new missile—the R9X—is breathtaking. In short, […]
Mayor Pete’s God-talk and Selective Outrage
One of the rules of modern discourse is to keep God, or religious-based argument, out of the arena of politics. Because we’re a country conditioned by an ahistorical interpretation of […]
Three Christian Moral Ingredients at the American Founding
A book on natural law and religious liberty that I am reading for an academic colloquium I am participating in is bringing to the forefront of my mind the uniqueness […]
If religion is just a choice, why is religious liberty a constitutional right?
There’s a critique against religious liberty that goes like this: Religion is a matter of someone’s personal choice, so why protect religious freedom as a constitutional right if it’s merely […]
Book Recommendation: Liberty in the Things of God
This morning I finished a highly anticipated book: Liberty in the Things of God by distinguished historian Robert Louis Wilken. I wrote my dissertation on how the architecture of Christian […]