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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…

Christians dare not succumb to either rationalism or relativism; rather, because of our mind’s limits and our sins, we must be dependent on revelation. The…

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

Dabney’s prophetic voice has rung true in many areas, perhaps most of all in education and the secularization of American schools.

To be human is to be a responsible agent, accountable before the face of God. Paganism and secularism alike seek to deny that responsibility —…

Groen van Prinsterer: the reformed scholar, statesman, and author who battled for ideas and stood for a positive Christian political alternative.

There is a developing renaissance of historic conservatism, in part due to many recent translations, among which is the nineteenth century German legal theorist Friedrich…

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…

Sex is one of the most foundational issues in our culture today. Read more to see what caused the dramatic shift in our culture’s attitude…

This article gives a Biblical case favoring capital punishment with a response to three of the most utilized arguments against the doctrine of capital punishment.

In 1534 the Dutch radical reformer John of Leyden took control of the nearby German city of Münster. He sought to establish an eschatological utopia,…

What the theologians declared united by God, philosophy’s great men tore asunder. However, by God’s grace, the Westminster Divines wisely navigated a Biblical view of…

“The nuclear family must be destroyed…whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process,” hailed Linda Gordon. Is Feminism the…

Christians tend to over spiritualize things. Analyzing and looking at art Biblically is usually one of those things.

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…

Walter Isaacson, Einstein’s biographer, explains, “If his theory of relativity produced ripples that unsettled the realms of morality and culture, this was not caused by…

On earth, the only truest wealth is life; a quiver of life. What price can be put on the joy of familial ties, paternal affection,…

The cultural gods have summoned us once again to fall down and worship. Too many Christians have shuttered at the flames before them and have…

Rawls seems to have thought that one must choose between believing in an omnipotent and good God who cares for human beings or hoping for…

The Augustinian anthropology of sin contained an ethical implication. Members of the City of God have a duty to love God, for this alone restores…

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…

If we are to defeat the Revolution, we must have the Gospel stripped of all hindrances and set free from the superstitions in which Rome…

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.

From Abraham Kuyper himself on his political theology, we discuss his views on Theonomy or Two Kingdom and what Kuyper believes about the justice system.

Should we as Christians fall under “Reconstructionism” or the “Theonomy” Camp? Should we focus on God’s law or man’s law? Could there be a middle…

The Rise of Secular Humanism towards Rational Oneism: The article overviews Peter Jones’ Oneism: how this cultures’ ideology leads to paganism.

How engaged should Christians be in the realms of cultural and social issues, of poverty and oppression? Could good intentions produce negative results and ultimately…

The Bible says that human life is so sacred, so precious, so holy “human life has so much dignity” that if with malice of forethought…

No pre-society civilization ever existed. All sentient moral beings are by definition relational. Therefore, man’s desire to love and be loved is the cause of…

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…

The new feminism’s theology: “…A feminine society will have its own special potentialities for good and evil, to which a theology based solely on masculine…

To attribute racism and discrimination to all of these unequal distributions is to assume the worst. Scripture, however, commands us to assume the best.

The conservative, like the prophet, is never popular among the people. It is a lonely road telling a generation they are headed the wrong way.

“Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.” Secularism has tried to snuff out the candle of religion, but it…

Instead of saying that Paul was wrong, feminism now claims that Paul’s teachings are misunderstood by the modern reader — they are culturally bound commands.

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…

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…

History, no less than science and philosophy, must be done by the Christian sub specie aeternitatis — within view of eternity, and as always, coram…

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…

For 2,000 years, Orthodox Christianity has taught distinct gender roles. These gender responsibilities did not come from man’s ingenuity, but from the Holy Scripture.

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

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…

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.

January 13, 2012, is a harsh reminder that genders need to be well-defined. That day, the nations saw the horror of a world where chivalry…

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…

Justice today is defined socially instead of biblically. Without Christ, equality becomes the new right and society the new judge.

Every generation in the modern era has had to deal with the question of inequality. As Christians, we desire to know if Scripture is sufficient…

The difference between liberty and license was prominent in Stahl’s view of freedom. Building explicitly on an Augustinian conception of ethics and freedom, Stahl articulates…

Read the journey of a female police officer who, when confronted with the truth of God’s design for her as a woman, gave up her…

Russell Kirk said, “Our twentieth-century world has experienced the hideous consequences of the collapse of belief in a moral order.” If we in society exchange…

God has glorified man and woman with different tasks and different strengths. And the domistic task is the opposite of being a degraded task-for only…

Liberals and Conservative want to claim Augustine as their own. With the doctrine of precedent, we explore his views on law, justice, and equality.

The battering rams of feminism have beaten away at masculinity and manhood to the point where men have had enough.

When thinking of John Calvin, we don’t think of politics and legal theory. But impact legal theory he did.

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

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.

Are you for or against social justice? This is a question from which no one can hide. Every pastor must wrestle with it. Every church…

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…

Marcuse, with his Neo-Socialism, believed that men need to be freed from false needs and consciousness.

It is regrettable that, even today, many Christians, disillusioned by the promises of liberalism, nevertheless believe that they can take on board its principles.

Around the time of the Second Great Awakening, the church began to see increased revivalism within its sectors. Social and moral reform spread across the…

Libertarians, ironically, tend to feed modern secularism. Libertarianism fails to balance the individual and the collective.

Conservative Christians must know John Rawls. His philosophy has bled into our theology and is in the church. Is justice without social justice possible?

Countries across the entire world are facing an impending population crisis. Women have neglected making a house into a home, and with that, neglected birthing…

A.A. Hodge called Dabney the greatest theologian in America during the 1800s, and many have noted his prophetic insight. His rejection of the modernist theory…

Is revolution the same as rebellion or the same as political freedom? If not, then what is the revolution?

Christians mistake difference of etiquette for gracelessness. Does being nice equal love? Should Calvinists sacrifice genuine unity for short-term accord?

The only way for true freedom and equity to take place is in a righteous society, a society in which the gospel is preached and…

Protestants have generally held a pro-life position. It is impracticable and infeasible to protect life when you are unarmed and helpless.

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

We reject two kinds of false conservatism. Only a Biblical conservatism shall benefit society through the ages.

What is the essence of freedom? How should Reformed Conservatives understand principles of law? F.J. Stahl shows how freedom is connected to man’s essence.

It is absolutely critical to understand the difference between doing social justice ministry, and adhering to “Social Justice ideology.” There is a world of difference…

Every statesman of the Reformation epic who, like John Knox, argued the right and duty of the states to educate the children, also argued State…

This is Part 2 of the discussion regarding Critical Race Theory. This article is a continuation discussing Delgado and Stefancic’s discussion on “nationalism,” followed by…

When we say that morality does not exist between humans and animals, we mean that it does not intrinsically exist. A moral relationship always entails…

Throughout the history of the Christian church, Christianity has always stood over against all forms of statism.

The social justice war on history and the method of historical analysis by modern standards seeks the most uncharitable explanations of actions, is wrong, dangerous,…

The doctrine of double effect is a Christian teaching going back to Aquinas. It is commonly attacked today, with T.M. Scanlon leading the charge. If…

Abraham Kuyper presents a system that rejects popular sovereignty. His solution is called, “sphere sovereignty.” This system is a worldview that stands on the foundation…

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

In his collection of essays titled What’s Wrong with the World, G.K. Chesterton said that “education is tradition.” More modern sensibilities might object: education is…

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…

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…

According to Machen, the state was an involuntary organization whose duty was to protect the freedom of individuals, families, and other private associations.

Reinhold Niebuhr correctly observed that identity comes from family, community and craft, or work. These three have taken a huge hit, and so we now…

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…

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.…

Racial reconciliation can easily lead to racial manipulation. Joseph Conrad addresses this concern in a grand tale of a crew of shipmates at sea. Perhaps…

Should Christians support reparations for American slavery? Some evangelicals believe so. Some have even attempted to make a biblical argument for reparations.

Is it possible that God distributes benefits and priveleges the way he distributes talents, duties, and responsibilities? That is, unequally?

Our present situation urgently requires thinking men, to produce a thinking conservatism, not a reactionary one. And reflective conservatism, indeed, can be produced – as…

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…

Man, being now in a fallen state, is at enmity with this natural order of things and seeks to suppress the glory of God. In…

In our efforts to shape culture according to an Authority in which the world does not believe, too many Christians have it backwards. We ask…

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…

Pantheistic and theistic approaches to environmentalism are universes apart. Francis Schaeffer understood the wisdom of an iconoclastic approach to correct the idolatrous approach of pantheism.

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.

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…

R.L. Dabney refutes Kant’s ethical theory, being one-sided. It, being overly rationalistic, cannot account for the moral nature of impulsive actions, and being overly altruistic,…

Sometimes, the hard talks, the hard lessons, and the most difficult times of our lives are what is best for us. These times “build character.”…

Rebuilding civilization will be a project soon halted without literature, academics, and history. This list is curated to inspire and encourage, to critique and to…

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…

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

Herman Bavinck was a deep thinker, an active churchman, compassionate statesman and possibly the most influential theologian born in the Netherlands.

In the realm of art, the focus of the Romantics did not glorify objects, but concepts such as liberty, despair, heroism etc. This glorification, however,…

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…

Liberals and Libertarians reject order as an ethical principle, conservative Christians do not. Read a defense of order as a precondition to justice.

If a man has a church, a community, and a home, his economic status is of little concern to his overall happiness.

Never forget that most of the abuses of the Roman Church are inextricably bound up with its doctrines, and that its so-called infallibility renders it…

Patriotism is loyalty to one’s nation. It is the love of a place, fellow countrymen, and local practices. Nationalism, on the other hand, can be…

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…

For centuries Western nations have prized a social structure which places heavy emphasis on harmony of interest. High levels of social concord have given way…

Individuals have the right to lethal, self-defense in cases of mortal danger from other persons.

We cannot say that what is good for the individual or the community is devoid of moral content. And moral content is determined by God’s…

Secularism is reductionistic. It is the rejection of the transcendent. If we cannot explain the existence of everything that we see by the transcendent explanation…

To employ the vocabulary of the modernists, the early church seemed to suffer from a classic case of xenophobia and privilege. Successful evangelical work on…

The Confession equips Reformed missiologists with a timeless biblical position on the relationship between church and state.

History has proven repeatedly that a disarmed populace is at the mercy of whoever seizes the government.

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,…

How Sola Scripture fits with the principles of conservatism is the thread of our life tapestry. It keeps us together, guiding us to keep our…

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…

Forsaking the supremacy of the divine, transcendent moral order as authoritative standard for societal and political arrangements in favor of the supremacy of man conflicts…

What is capable of guaranteeing the social order after the great masses have reconsidered its foundations? What is the solution to our revolution?

Christians must be careful while engaging in the arts. Our hearts respond to art. The fact is that art can be intoxicating and addicting.

Political witch-hunts follow a basic pattern. Random violence, false accusations, and crimes against a vague collective. These witch-hunts drive the cultural revolution, propelling the injustice…

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.

What binds republicanism to conservatism and reformed protestantism and what can republicanism offer to benefit our families, churches, and society?

Can we have truth in our value judgments? Is truth relative and subjective? Are judgments declared simply opinion or can they be objectively true? Mortimer…

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…

To be able to distinguish is critical in the war on language. Read here to see the Christian, Marxist, Libertarian, and Conservative Conceptions of Liberty.

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…

In an open and honest essay, Samuel Sey documents his personal story of immigration and why so many immigrants hate illegal immigration.

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.

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…

The racial reconciliation movement within the church is supposedly intended to reconcile Whiteness and Blackness. It’s apparently designed to rebuke racism within the Church and…

Situations, like people, come in all shapes and sizes and are complex. We must realize the difficulty and complexity of poverty. Like a doctor, we…

Ideologies promise to provide universal and easy solutions, yet are unable to deliver on the promise of solving every problem. No replacement exists for wisdom,…

Only when man takes responsibility for his sin in destroying his home, his resting place, can he accept God’s plan of rebuilding it: a theology…

That which walks this way has courage and can remain steadfast in his/her approach to the system. Take everything at face value and question everything.…

We have to choose between the sovereignty of man and the sovereignty of God. Reject sovereignty by the grace of God and you are left…

Arguably, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is the greatest legal theorist America has ever produced. The Hohfeldian Rights Analysis was one of the greatest breakthroughs in the…

“Love of home” is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend that Oikophilia is a biblical concept.

Groen van Prinsterer’s conservative political message from the nineteenth century, and in particular his conviction that societal decline and state tyranny are fruits of apostasy,…

The fastest route to innovation is to study what has already been created, for only God creates ex nihilo.