The Bible says that human life is so sacred, so precious, so holy “human life…
Throughout the history of the Christian church, Christianity has always stood over against all forms…
Robert Dabney was the Southern Presbyterian theologian and professor of ethics during the late 1800s,…
Orthodoxy gave way to “tolerance” as the goal of the church. Liberal factions grew until…
Liberals and Conservative want to claim Augustine as their own. With the doctrine of precedent,…
I’ve recently read through the Russian philosopher Alexandr Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory, and overall,…
A man who has no loyalties is a man whose identity is up for sale….
Groen van Prinsterer’s conservative political message from the nineteenth century, and in particular his conviction…
The Revolution is essentially an epistemic rebellion against the authority and will of God. This…
Man, being now in a fallen state, is at enmity with this natural order of…
To attribute racism and discrimination to all of these unequal distributions is to assume the…
Protestants have generally held a pro-life position. It is impracticable and infeasible to protect life…
If the family is a bedrock of society and if men are responsible for the…
In our efforts to shape culture according to an Authority in which the world does…
For 2,000 years, Orthodox Christianity has taught distinct gender roles. These gender responsibilities did not…
One of the greatest social scientists credits John Calvin for the rise of capitalism and,…
For centuries Western nations have prized a social structure which places heavy emphasis on harmony…
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as…
This article gives a Biblical case favoring capital punishment with a response to three of…
As a totalitarian system, communism is hostile towards religion as it threatens authority. Karl Marx…
We reject two kinds of false conservatism. Only a Biblical conservatism shall benefit society through…
Every generation in the modern era has had to deal with the question of inequality….
What is capable of guaranteeing the social order after the great masses have reconsidered its foundations?…
Christians tend to over spiritualize things. Analyzing and looking at art Biblically is usually one…
Dabney’s prophetic voice has rung true in many areas, perhaps most of all in education…
Rebuilding civilization will be a project soon halted without literature, academics, and history. This list…
Every statesman of the Reformation epic who, like John Knox, argued the right and duty…
Does God care about equality the way we do? And, is it true that the…
On earth, the only truest wealth is life; a quiver of life. What price can…
Should Christians support reparations for American slavery? Some evangelicals believe so. Some have even attempted…
Reinhold Niebuhr correctly observed that identity comes from family, community and craft, or work. These…
According to Machen, the state was an involuntary organization whose duty was to protect the…
We cannot say that what is good for the individual or the community is devoid…
The cultural gods have summoned us once again to fall down and worship. Too many…
Two more principles are at work in society. The ancients saw these as the principles…
Since the early days of the conservative movement, conservatives and libertarians have uneasily coexisted as…
Christians mistake difference of etiquette for gracelessness. Does being nice equal love? Should Calvinists sacrifice…
It is regrettable that, even today, many Christians, disillusioned by the promises of liberalism, nevertheless…
Leon Kass, author of the essay, The Wisdom of Repugnance, gives three arguments used to defend…
If we are to defeat the Revolution, we must have the Gospel stripped of all…
The battering rams of feminism have beaten away at masculinity and manhood to the point…
Because evangelical social liberals are inattentive to important distinctions within the notion of justice, many…
In America today, we call it “abortion.” Should we be calling it something else? Could…
How engaged should Christians be in the realms of cultural and social issues, of poverty…
Christians dare not succumb to either rationalism or relativism; rather, because of our mind’s limits…
Conservatism and Covenantal theology both have a place for the family and of the families’…
Though Christian schools are good for liberty and are a check on public schools, Machen…
The Augustinian anthropology of sin contained an ethical implication. Members of the City of God…
If a man has a church, a community, and a home, his economic status…
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until it…
There is a developing renaissance of historic conservatism, in part due to many recent translations,…
Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor…
Jesus warned that He was sending His disciples out as “sheep in the midst of…
Political witch-hunts follow a basic pattern. Random violence, false accusations, and crimes against a vague…
Groen van Prinsterer: the reformed scholar, statesman, and author who battled for ideas and stood…
Conservatism and libertarianism, at heart, are at odds. Conservatives hold that society is no mere…
Around the time of the Second Great Awakening, the church began to see increased revivalism…
Social justice is a teaching born in the Enlightenment, steming from Hume, Bentham, Smith, Kant,…
“Love of home” is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend…
The God-given ontological framework for all reality is designed so that obedience to God’s law…
Edmund Burke is one of the most important — if not the most important —…
The concept of “freedom” to many ostensible Conservatives today has nothing to do with virtue…
When thinking of John Calvin, we don’t think of politics and legal theory. But impact…
Doctrines of inequality are far from in vogue in the modern world. Everywhere modernity much…
Anthony Smith characterizes nationalism as a movement that seeks to preserve “national autonomy, unity, &…
Situations, like people, come in all shapes and sizes and are complex. We must realize…
“The nuclear family must be destroyed…whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is…
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government,”…
Goodness, Truth, and Beauty as transcendental goals worthy of all human pursuit has plagued many…
The recent call to say “Farewell” to Jonathan Edwards was replaced with a more manageable…
Stewardship of the world goes beyond mere action and strikes at the heart of the…
Countries across the entire world are facing an impending population crisis. Women have neglected making…
Community-building then is none other than home-building, and home-building is none other than—when understood broadly—love-making,…
Rebuilding civilization will be a project soon halted without literature, academics, and history. As Augustine…
The Calvinistic confession of the sovereignty of God holds good for all the world, is…
The guardians of our past were the unsung heroes of their day. Will we be…
The Confession equips Reformed missiologists with a timeless biblical position on the relationship between church…
“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of…
A mind transformed by a Biblical worldview understands the importance of the Reformed doctrines of…
How Sola Scripture fits with the principles of conservatism is the thread of our life…
Sex is one of the most foundational issues in our culture today. Read more to…
A shared love of ideas, ideals, stories, and histories are necessary to rebuild civilization. Therefore,…
Patriotism is loyalty to one’s nation. It is the love of a place, fellow countrymen,…
Pantheistic and theistic approaches to environmentalism are universes apart. Francis Schaeffer understood the wisdom of…
Why are conservatives against women being drafted? If women are allowed by law to be…
Should public discourse be neutral in regards to religion? Read more about neutrality and John…
To be human is to be a responsible agent, accountable before the face of God….
What binds republicanism to conservatism and reformed protestantism and what can republicanism offer to benefit…
The conservative, like the prophet, is never popular among the people. It is a lonely…
To be able to distinguish is critical in the war on language. Read here to…
A.A. Hodge called Dabney the greatest theologian in America during the 1800s, and many have…
Different roles, different jobs, produce different rewards; Christ’s reward is His Bride and no one…
Christians humility builds on the wisdom of the church, the wisdom of two millennia. Historically,…
The only way for true freedom and equity to take place is in a righteous…
Christians today must avoid using corrosive elements of rebellion in the rebuilding of civilization. Failure…
Groen van Prinsterer’s battle for Christian education in the Netherlands took place during a time…
No pre-society civilization ever existed. All sentient moral beings are by definition relational. Therefore, man’s…
Conservative Christians must know John Rawls. His philosophy has bled into our theology and is…
A new concept of victimhood has arisen. WIth it, a new concept of justice, a…
Libertarians, ironically, tend to feed modern secularism. Libertarianism fails to balance the individual and the…
As unbridled optimism sweeps the nation, there are six fallacies of liberalism that conservatives should…
Reformed Millenials are vulnerable to social justice. Social justice has become so widely accepted in…
R.L. Dabney refutes Kant’s ethical theory, being one-sided. It, being overly rationalistic, cannot account for…
We have to choose between the sovereignty of man and the sovereignty of God. Reject…
We often think of shame as being excited by guilt, but that is not often…
The difference between liberty and license was prominent in Stahl’s view of freedom. Building explicitly…
Secularism is reductionistic. It is the rejection of the transcendent. If we cannot explain the…
To employ the vocabulary of the modernists, the early church seemed to suffer from a…
This is the first of two essays discussing Critical Race Theory. This article discusses Delgado…
Sometimes, the hard talks, the hard lessons, and the most difficult times of our lives…
Critical theory seeks to obliterate differences of status and power since all differences are purely…
Baucham connects Marxism and Marxist Critical Theory to the issues surrounding discussions and actions related…
History has proven repeatedly that a disarmed populace is at the mercy of whoever seizes…
In an open and honest essay, Samuel Sey documents his personal story of immigration and…
As conservatives, we know that charity, if emptied of free will, is emptied of love….
Should we as Christians fall under “Reconstructionism” or the “Theonomy” Camp? Should we focus on…
Arguably, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is the greatest legal theorist America has ever produced. The Hohfeldian…
Racial reconciliation can easily lead to racial manipulation. Joseph Conrad addresses this concern in a…
Oikophilia, the love of home. Do we have a duty to protect it and even…
The doctrine of double effect is a Christian teaching going back to Aquinas. It is…
A key to understanding the present social justice theology is understanding liberation theology, and the…
Trying to gauge conservative reaction to the change in political wind, I listened to a…
Christianity and Social Justice isn’t a modern debate. Augustine held that God can command the…
History, no less than science and philosophy, must be done by the Christian sub…
Only a foolish optimism of a broken ideology can deny the harsh realities that have…
Protestantism developed the doctrine of vocation. This view of work comes from the idea that…
Individuals have the right to lethal, self-defense in cases of mortal danger from other persons….
Never forget that most of the abuses of the Roman Church are inextricably bound up…
The concept of systemic racism today has become underlined by a form of cultural relativism,…
Social justice confuses different conceptions of justice and merit, and chases after an undeserved and…
Cross-dressing is an abomination to God because it is a distortion to His creation. The…
Rawls seems to have thought that one must choose between believing in an omnipotent and…
Forsaking the supremacy of the divine, transcendent moral order as authoritative standard for societal and…
Instead of saying that Paul was wrong, feminism now claims that Paul’s teachings are misunderstood…