TRC

Defend the Family. Strengthen the Church. Build Civilization.

Reformed Conservatism

A Brief Introduction to Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke is one of the most important — if not the most important — political thinkers in the last three hundred years.

Principle of Variegated Distribution

Daniel Mason

Different roles, different jobs, produce different rewards; Christ’s reward is His Bride and no one else’s. To attempt to redistribute rewards goes against justice as…

Conservatism and the Reformed Doctrine of Covenant

Patrick Steckbeck

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…

Is Capitalism Immoral?

Ronald Nash

Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution have been demonized as unredeemable evils. The argument is simple: capitalism has increased poverty.

Abraham Kuyper: Reformed Statesman

Joseph Crampton

Abraham Kuyper used his massive intellect and top-flight educational achievements to wage war against the destructive forces of Modernism. He wrote, “it must be felt…

Edmund Burke: The First Conservative

Joseph Crampton

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…

Social Justice

Augustine On Social Justice

Robert J. McPherson II

To Augustine, we have two ways of acquiring justice: transcendent and immanent. Some describe imminent justice as legal justice and transcendent justice as religious justice.…

Liberation Theology: A History

Robert J. McPherson II

A key to understanding the present social justice theology is understanding liberation theology, and the key to understanding that is by understanding its history.

Rawls, Neutrality, and Public Reason

Hunter Baker

Should public discourse be neutral in regards to religion? Read more about neutrality and John Rawls’ use of comprehensive doctrines and public reason.

Capitalism and the Exploitation of the Working Class

Ronald Nash

Within capitalism, is exploitation necessary and unavoidable and therefore endemic to the system? Dr. Ronald Nash navigates this question with a fair trial.

The Father, Son, and Anti-racism

Monique Duson

Fighting racism and injustice is noble; but if we’re not careful, we may find we’ve been fighting on the wrong side the whole time.

What is Critical Theory?

Daniel Mason

Critical theory seeks to obliterate differences of status and power since all differences are purely and artificially constructed not by God, but by man. The…

Liberalism

Why Men are Opting Out of Marriage

Nicole Leaman

If the family is a bedrock of society and if men are responsible for the family, it behooves us to seriously consider the reasons why…

Dabney’s Refutation of Relativism

Robert J. McPherson II

Robert Dabney was the Southern Presbyterian theologian and professor of ethics during the late 1800s, who provides a helpful polemic against moral relativism.

The Power and Beauty of Shame

Clark Morrow

We often think of shame as being excited by guilt, but that is not often the case. Society rejects shame – a God-given mechanism for…

What is the Revolution?

Jan Adriaan Schlebusch

The Revolution is essentially an epistemic rebellion against the authority and will of God. This epistemic rebellion was rightly identified by our conservative fathers as…