Contra Omnia Adversa
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Does Systemic Racism Exist?
The concept of systemic racism today has become underlined by a form of cultural relativism, a concept defined by perceptions, not proof. Under this new definition, black people—not God—are the authority on what constitutes as racism or systemic racism.
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The Old Soul vs the Noble Soul
The guardians of our past were the unsung heroes of their day. Will we be considered ‘old souls’ or ‘noble souls’? What should the genuine conservative desire?
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Women’s Draft: Who is Doris Miller?
Why are conservatives against women being drafted? If women are allowed by law to be in the military, why do we have a moral obligation to stand against it?
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Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as such he viewed society as a partnership between the living and the dead.
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Antidote to the Liberal Principles
It is regrettable that, even today, many Christians, disillusioned by the promises of liberalism, nevertheless believe that they can take on board its principles.
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2020 Reading List to Rebuild Civilization & Community
A shared love of ideas, ideals, stories, and histories are necessary to rebuild civilization. Therefore, literature and history are necessary points of departure as we move forward in a crumbling civilization.
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Social Justice and Early Christianity
Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor can never demand from the rich; generosity is never owed.
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Distributive Justice and the Book of Job
Because evangelical social liberals are inattentive to important distinctions within the notion of justice, many of their appeals to biblical uses of “justice” are compromised.
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Challenging Divine Authority
As a totalitarian system, communism is hostile towards religion as it threatens authority. Karl Marx declared that “communism begins where atheism begins,” and communism “abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.”
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Remembering Groen
Groen van Prinsterer: the reformed scholar, statesman, and author who battled for ideas and stood for a positive Christian political alternative.
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Exercising Non-Political Power in a Politicized World
Trying to gauge conservative reaction to the change in political wind, I listened to a segment of talk radio while traveling this week.
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The Matthew Principle and Inequality
Does God care about equality the way we do? And, is it true that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? The Matthew Principle, or the Pareto Effect, shows how inequality may not always be a bad thing.
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The Case For Fusionism
Since the early days of the conservative movement, conservatives and…
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How to Restore Community and Home
Community-building then is none other than home-building, and home-building is none other than—when understood broadly—love-making, though the narrow sense works as well.
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Calvin’s Influence on Legal Theory
When thinking of John Calvin, we don’t think of politics and legal theory. But impact legal theory he did.
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Thomas Sowell on “Atomistic” Libertarians
Libertarians, ironically, tend to feed modern secularism. Libertarianism fails to balance the individual and the collective.
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American Conservatism in Hospice Care
The concept of “freedom” to many ostensible Conservatives today has nothing to do with virtue or the wisdom of tradition, but everything to do with soft, self-perpetuating libertinism.
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What is Republicanism?
What binds republicanism to conservatism and reformed protestantism and what can republicanism offer to benefit our families, churches, and society?
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Conservatism and the Reformed Doctrine of Covenant
Conservatism and Covenantal theology both have a place for the family and of the families’ education as a principle mechanism of the conservation of the good and the transmission of knowledge.
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Russell Kirk Warned About the Fall of England
Russell Kirk championed a Christian-rooted conservatism, blending Burkean tradition with moral order. He warned that liberty without Christian morality breeds materialism and Marxism, while unassimilated immigration erodes culture. Kirk urged preserving Western heritage against radical change to prevent civilizational decay in England and America.
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Dabney’s Refutation of Relativism
Robert Dabney was the Southern Presbyterian theologian and professor of ethics during the late 1800s, who provides a helpful polemic against moral relativism.
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Calvin’s Political Theology
The Calvinistic confession of the sovereignty of God holds good for all the world, is true for all nations, and is of force in all authority which man exercises over man.
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Abortion & Historical Theology
Christians humility builds on the wisdom of the church, the wisdom of two millennia. Historically, the church has rejected abortion. Why should only those who walk around on two feet have the right to share their wisdom?
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Groen’s Reformed Meta-History
History, no less than science and philosophy, must be done by the Christian sub specie aeternitatis — within view of eternity, and as always, coram Deo.
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Aborting Abortion
In America today, we call it “abortion.” Should we be calling it something else? Could aborting abortion be the way to saving life outside the womb?
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Pseudo-Conservatism
We reject two kinds of false conservatism. Only a Biblical conservatism shall benefit society through the ages.
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Christianity and Social Justice
Christianity and Social Justice isn’t a modern debate. Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor can’t demand from the rich.
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Three Reasons Against Cloning
Leon Kass, author of the essay, The Wisdom of Repugnance, gives three arguments used to defend cloning. These three arguments are: the Argument of Technology, the Liberal Argument, and the Meliorist Argument.
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Institutionalizing Children for Career is Wrong
Only a foolish optimism of a broken ideology can deny the harsh realities that have accrued due to absentee mothers. But feminism and greed has created an absentee culture.
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The Problem with Borders
Oikophilia, the love of home. Do we have a duty to protect it and even share it? Is there a disctinction between immigration and assimilation?
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6 Fallacies of Liberalism
As unbridled optimism sweeps the nation, there are six fallacies of liberalism that conservatives should be aware of. Philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton documents these six fallacies in his book, “The Uses of Pessimism.” Learn these fallacies and they will be spotted everywhere.
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Edmund Burke’s Conservative Compassion
As conservatives, we know that charity, if emptied of free will, is emptied of love. And Edmund Burke, the Father of Conservatism, understood this well.
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The Development of Social Justice
Social justice is a teaching born in the Enlightenment, steming from Hume, Bentham, Smith, Kant, and Rousseau. Francois-Noel Babeuf, is a lesser known, but no less important, name in this history as well.
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Loyalty, Immigration, and Citizenship
A man who has no loyalties is a man whose identity is up for sale. The virtue of loyalty is but one sine qua non of the social ingredients necessary for a society to “stick together.”
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Calvin & Culture, Reconsidered
One of the greatest social scientists credits John Calvin for the rise of capitalism and, by extension, modern Western culture itself. That is quite an influence and quite a tribute to Calvin.
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Breaking Boundaries
Orthodoxy gave way to “tolerance” as the goal of the church. Liberal factions grew until in the 1920’s they gained control of the major Protestant denominations.
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Augustine as Common-Law Conservative
Liberals and Conservative want to claim Augustine as their own. With the doctrine of precedent, we explore his views on law, justice, and equality.
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Machen: Politically Incorrect
According to Machen, the state was an involuntary organization whose duty was to protect the freedom of individuals, families, and other private associations.
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Piety or Patricide
Christians today must avoid using corrosive elements of rebellion in the rebuilding of civilization. Failure to reject rebellion will lead to the same present path of ruin.
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Postmodern Religion
A mind transformed by a Biblical worldview understands the importance of the Reformed doctrines of grace and the five solas. As David Wells pointed out, “It is not the (post)modern culture that should be telling it what to think. The principle here is sola Scriptura, not sola cultura.”
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Decline of Responsibility in the Decline of Christianity
A new concept of victimhood has arisen. WIth it, a new concept of justice, a concept of justice divorced from the Christian view of responsibility.
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Godly Environmentalism
Stewardship of the world goes beyond mere action and strikes at the heart of the Reformed Conservative. The way that God reveals Himself through His creation is why Christians ought to champion Godly Environmentalism.
