Are Calvinists “Nice?”
Christians mistake difference of etiquette for gracelessness. Does being nice equal love? Should Calvinists sacrifice…
Women’s Draft: Who is Doris Miller?
Why are conservatives against women being drafted? If women are allowed by law to be…
Christianity and Social Justice
Christianity and Social Justice isn’t a modern debate. Augustine held that God can command the…
The Development of Social Justice
Social justice is a teaching born in the Enlightenment, steming from Hume, Bentham, Smith, Kant,…
What is Secularism?
Secularism is reductionistic. It is the rejection of the transcendent. If we cannot explain the…
Aborting Abortion
In America today, we call it “abortion.” Should we be calling it something else? Could…
Rawls, Neutrality, and Public Reason
Should public discourse be neutral in regards to religion? Read more about neutrality and John…
Bavinck, Rousseau and the French Revolution
Every generation in the modern era has had to deal with the question of inequality….
Biblical Principles For Art
Christians tend to over spiritualize things. Analyzing and looking at art Biblically is usually one…
The Matthew Principle and Inequality
Does God care about equality the way we do? And, is it true that the…
The Restless Heart of Public Education
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until it…
Exercising Non-Political Power in a Politicized World
Trying to gauge conservative reaction to the change in political wind, I listened to a…
Calvin & Culture, Reconsidered
One of the greatest social scientists credits John Calvin for the rise of capitalism and,…
Principle of Variegated Distribution
Different roles, different jobs, produce different rewards; Christ’s reward is His Bride and no one…
6 Fallacies of Liberalism
As unbridled optimism sweeps the nation, there are six fallacies of liberalism that conservatives should…
Groen’s Fight For Christian Education
Groen van Prinsterer’s battle for Christian education in the Netherlands took place during a time…
Marxism Alienates the Worker From Home
If a man has a church, a community, and a home, his economic status…
Race Counseling in the Early Church
To employ the vocabulary of the modernists, the early church seemed to suffer from a…
Challenging Divine Authority
As a totalitarian system, communism is hostile towards religion as it threatens authority. Karl Marx…
Distributive Justice and the Book of Job
Because evangelical social liberals are inattentive to important distinctions within the notion of justice, many…
Piety or Patricide
Christians today must avoid using corrosive elements of rebellion in the rebuilding of civilization. Failure…
Who are “The Least of These?”
“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of…
Decline of Responsibility in the Decline of Christianity
A new concept of victimhood has arisen. WIth it, a new concept of justice, a…
How the Church Paved the Road to Feminism
Around the time of the Second Great Awakening, the church began to see increased revivalism…
Dabney on Education as a Religious Task
Dabney’s prophetic voice has rung true in many areas, perhaps most of all in education…
2020 Reading List to Rebuild Civilization & Community
A shared love of ideas, ideals, stories, and histories are necessary to rebuild civilization. Therefore,…
Harmony of Interest and Authoritarianism
For centuries Western nations have prized a social structure which places heavy emphasis on harmony…
Social Justice and Early Christianity
Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor…
Weimar Republic and Gun Control
History has proven repeatedly that a disarmed populace is at the mercy of whoever seizes…
Thomas Sowell on “Atomistic” Libertarians
Libertarians, ironically, tend to feed modern secularism. Libertarianism fails to balance the individual and the…
4 Principles for “The Good Life”
Sometimes, the hard talks, the hard lessons, and the most difficult times of our lives…
Disobedience as Ritual Magic
Man, being now in a fallen state, is at enmity with this natural order of…
The Power and Beauty of Shame
We often think of shame as being excited by guilt, but that is not often…
Divine Concurrence and Moral Responsibility
To be human is to be a responsible agent, accountable before the face of God….
2023 Reading List to Rebuild Civilization & Community
Rebuilding civilization will be a project soon halted without literature, academics, and history. As Augustine…
The Virtues and Their Relations
In ancient Latin, vir (man) became virtu (man-strength, and then the strength or power of anything…
Why Men are Opting Out of Marriage
If the family is a bedrock of society and if men are responsible for the…
Statism
Throughout the history of the Christian church, Christianity has always stood over against all forms…
Groen’s Reformed Meta-History
History, no less than science and philosophy, must be done by the Christian sub…
Antidote to the Liberal Principles
It is regrettable that, even today, many Christians, disillusioned by the promises of liberalism, nevertheless…
Reparations and Ezra 6
Should Christians support reparations for American slavery? Some evangelicals believe so. Some have even attempted…
An Aesthetic Apologetic?
Goodness, Truth, and Beauty as transcendental goals worthy of all human pursuit has plagued many…
The Reformation Principle
If we are to defeat the Revolution, we must have the Gospel stripped of all…
Correcting Scanlon and the Doctrine of Double Effect
The doctrine of double effect is a Christian teaching going back to Aquinas. It is…
How Does The Bible Define Freedom?
The God-given ontological framework for all reality is designed so that obedience to God’s law…
Racial Reconciliation’s Stumbling Block
Racial reconciliation can easily lead to racial manipulation. Joseph Conrad addresses this concern in a…
Was F.J. Stahl a Relativist?
There is a developing renaissance of historic conservatism, in part due to many recent translations,…
Why Reformed Christians Are Vulnerable To Social Justice
Reformed Millenials are vulnerable to social justice. Social justice has become so widely accepted in…
The Old Soul vs the Noble Soul
The guardians of our past were the unsung heroes of their day. Will we be…
The Conservative’s Prophetic Role
The conservative, like the prophet, is never popular among the people. It is a lonely…
The Case For Fusionism
Since the early days of the conservative movement, conservatives and libertarians have uneasily coexisted as…
Solution to the Revolution
What is capable of guaranteeing the social order after the great masses have reconsidered its foundations?…
The Protestant Doctrine of Alienation and Vocation
Protestantism developed the doctrine of vocation. This view of work comes from the idea that…
Social Welfare Programs and Christians
How engaged should Christians be in the realms of cultural and social issues, of poverty…
A Depraved New World
Sex is one of the most foundational issues in our culture today. Read more to…
Where Did All the Good Men Go?
The battering rams of feminism have beaten away at masculinity and manhood to the point…
Edwards In The Hands Of Social Justice
The recent call to say “Farewell” to Jonathan Edwards was replaced with a more manageable…
Psychology of Political Witch Hunts
Political witch-hunts follow a basic pattern. Random violence, false accusations, and crimes against a vague…
Calvin’s Political Theology
The Calvinistic confession of the sovereignty of God holds good for all the world, is…
Fault Lines: Book Review
Baucham connects Marxism and Marxist Critical Theory to the issues surrounding discussions and actions related…
Groen van Prinsterer on the Nature of Civil Authority
Groen van Prinsterer’s conservative political message from the nineteenth century, and in particular his conviction…
On Natural Communities
Does Christianity affirm natural bonds of blood, nation, and race? Grace builds on nature—not erases…
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,…
What Is Reconstructionism? What Is Theonomy?
Should we as Christians fall under “Reconstructionism” or the “Theonomy” Camp? Should we focus on…
Machen: Politically Incorrect
According to Machen, the state was an involuntary organization whose duty was to protect the…
Neo-Feminism
Instead of saying that Paul was wrong, feminism now claims that Paul’s teachings are misunderstood…
Edmund Burke’s Conservative Compassion
As conservatives, we know that charity, if emptied of free will, is emptied of love….
Confounding the Postmodern Mind
Christians dare not succumb to either rationalism or relativism; rather, because of our mind’s limits…
What should be the Christian stand on the death penalty?
The Bible says that human life is so sacred, so precious, so holy “human life…
Three Reasons Against Cloning
Leon Kass, author of the essay, The Wisdom of Repugnance, gives three arguments used to defend…
Stahl’s Reformed Theory of Freedom
The difference between liberty and license was prominent in Stahl’s view of freedom. Building explicitly…
An Introduction to Hohfeldian Rights Analysis
Arguably, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is the greatest legal theorist America has ever produced. The Hohfeldian…
Conservatism and the Reformed Doctrine of Covenant
Conservatism and Covenantal theology both have a place for the family and of the families’…
Francis Schaeffer’s Iconoclastic Environmentalism
Pantheistic and theistic approaches to environmentalism are universes apart. Francis Schaeffer understood the wisdom of…
Alexandr Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory
I’ve recently read through the Russian philosopher Alexandr Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory, and overall,…
Groen’s Conservative Political Theory
Forsaking the supremacy of the divine, transcendent moral order as authoritative standard for societal and…
Belgic Confession Article 36 and Two Kingdom Theology
The Confession equips Reformed missiologists with a timeless biblical position on the relationship between church…
Catholicism’s Impotence and the Liberal Revolution
Never forget that most of the abuses of the Roman Church are inextricably bound up…
Patriotism vs Nationalism
Patriotism is loyalty to one’s nation. It is the love of a place, fellow countrymen,…
Capital Punishment Defended
This article gives a Biblical case favoring capital punishment with a response to three of…
Feminism in the Church
For 2,000 years, Orthodox Christianity has taught distinct gender roles. These gender responsibilities did not…
Augustine as Common-Law Conservative
Liberals and Conservative want to claim Augustine as their own. With the doctrine of precedent,…
Gun Rights, Protestant History, and Modern Research
Protestants have generally held a pro-life position. It is impracticable and infeasible to protect life…
What is Critical Theory?
Critical theory seeks to obliterate differences of status and power since all differences are purely…
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as…
Diagonisis of the Psychosis of Postmodernism
Reinhold Niebuhr correctly observed that identity comes from family, community and craft, or work. These…
What Happens When the Cultural gods Reject Your Sacrifices?
The cultural gods have summoned us once again to fall down and worship. Too many…
Pseudo-Conservatism
We reject two kinds of false conservatism. Only a Biblical conservatism shall benefit society through…
The Problem with Borders
Oikophilia, the love of home. Do we have a duty to protect it and even…
Christian Nationalism: An Introduction
Anthony Smith characterizes nationalism as a movement that seeks to preserve “national autonomy, unity, &…
Racism and Rational Discourse
To attribute racism and discrimination to all of these unequal distributions is to assume the…
A Brief Introduction to Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke is one of the most important — if not the most important —…
Conservatism and Sola Scriptura
How Sola Scripture fits with the principles of conservatism is the thread of our life…
The RTS Professor Against Social Justice
Social justice confuses different conceptions of justice and merit, and chases after an undeserved and…
Calvin’s Influence on Legal Theory
When thinking of John Calvin, we don’t think of politics and legal theory. But impact…
State Education Entails State Religion
Every statesman of the Reformation epic who, like John Knox, argued the right and duty…
Russell Kirk Warned About the Fall of England
Russell Kirk championed a Christian-rooted conservatism, blending Burkean tradition with moral order. He warned that…
Liberation Theology: A History
A key to understanding the present social justice theology is understanding liberation theology, and the…
What is the Common Good?
We cannot say that what is good for the individual or the community is devoid…
An Unorthodox Introduction to Libertarianism
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government,”…
John Rawls’s Technodicy
Rawls seems to have thought that one must choose between believing in an omnipotent and…
6 Problems With The Social Contract
A.A. Hodge called Dabney the greatest theologian in America during the 1800s, and many have…
How to Define Christian Liberty
To be able to distinguish is critical in the war on language. Read here to…
Libertarians And The Eternal Contract
Conservatism and libertarianism, at heart, are at odds. Conservatives hold that society is no mere…
We are the Problem of Evil: The Case for a Purely Reformed Theodicy
Part of the popular response to the common objection to the existence of God rests…
The Dark Side of Feminism
“The nuclear family must be destroyed…whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is…
Understanding Poverty the Christian Way
Situations, like people, come in all shapes and sizes and are complex. We must realize…
Breaking Boundaries
Orthodoxy gave way to “tolerance” as the goal of the church. Liberal factions grew until…
On The Right to Lethal Self Defense
Individuals have the right to lethal, self-defense in cases of mortal danger from other persons….
Our Conservative Political Principles
We have to choose between the sovereignty of man and the sovereignty of God. Reject…
2021 Reading List to Rebuild Civilization & Community
Rebuilding civilization will be a project soon halted without literature, academics, and history. This list…
An Empty Quiver
On earth, the only truest wealth is life; a quiver of life. What price can…
Institutionalizing Children for Career is Wrong
Only a foolish optimism of a broken ideology can deny the harsh realities that have…
Dabney’s Refutation of Relativism
Robert Dabney was the Southern Presbyterian theologian and professor of ethics during the late 1800s,…
Augustine’s Political Theology
The Augustinian anthropology of sin contained an ethical implication. Members of the City of God…
What is Republicanism?
What binds republicanism to conservatism and reformed protestantism and what can republicanism offer to benefit…
A Christian Response To Political Correctness
Jesus warned that He was sending His disciples out as “sheep in the midst of…
Abortion & Historical Theology
Christians humility builds on the wisdom of the church, the wisdom of two millennia. Historically,…
Loyalty, Immigration, and Citizenship
A man who has no loyalties is a man whose identity is up for sale….
What was the Revolution?
The Revolution is essentially an epistemic rebellion against the authority and will of God. This…
Is Oikophilia Biblical?
“Love of home” is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend…
Transgender Activism Corrupting History
After the International Olympics Committee (IOC) announced the decision to limit participation in women’s sports…
Postmodern Religion
A mind transformed by a Biblical worldview understands the importance of the Reformed doctrines of…
Correcting John Rawls’s Social Justice
Conservative Christians must know John Rawls. His philosophy has bled into our theology and is…
Society’s Proper Foundation: Love
No pre-society civilization ever existed. All sentient moral beings are by definition relational. Therefore, man’s…
Destruction of Nations in the Rejection of Children
Countries across the entire world are facing an impending population crisis. Women have neglected making…
Machen’s Rejection of Libertarian Individualism
Two more principles are at work in society. The ancients saw these as the principles…
Why Immigrants Like Me Hate Illegal Immigration
In an open and honest essay, Samuel Sey documents his personal story of immigration and…
Godly Environmentalism
Stewardship of the world goes beyond mere action and strikes at the heart of the…
The Authority of the State
In our efforts to shape culture according to an Authority in which the world does…
Does Cross-Dressing Apply to Today?
Cross-dressing is an abomination to God because it is a distortion to His creation. The…
American Conservatism in Hospice Care
The concept of “freedom” to many ostensible Conservatives today has nothing to do with virtue…
The Westminster Doctrine of Inequality
Doctrines of inequality are far from in vogue in the modern world. Everywhere modernity much…
Problems With Critical Race Theory Pt 1
This is the first of two essays discussing Critical Race Theory. This article discusses Delgado…
Does Systemic Racism Exist?
The concept of systemic racism today has become underlined by a form of cultural relativism,…
Remembering Groen
Groen van Prinsterer: the reformed scholar, statesman, and author who battled for ideas and stood…
Correction of the Theory of Kant
R.L. Dabney refutes Kant’s ethical theory, being one-sided. It, being overly rationalistic, cannot account for…
Machen On The Need For Christian Education
Though Christian schools are good for liberty and are a check on public schools, Machen…
What is the Revolution?
Is revolution the same as rebellion or the same as political freedom? If not, then…
Socialism and Christianity Compatible?
The only way for true freedom and equity to take place is in a righteous…
