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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
It is regrettable that, even today, many Christians, disillusioned by the promises of liberalism, nevertheless believe that they can take on board its principles.
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 …
“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 …
Goodness, Truth, and Beauty as transcendental goals worthy of all human pursuit has plagued many a philosophical mind through the ages. Truth is something in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the key concepts in conservatism is Edmund Burke’s idea of the “eternal contract.” Society, Burke believed, was not some mere temporary contrivance, but …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Within capitalism, is exploitation necessary and unavoidable and therefore endemic to the system? Dr. Ronald Nash navigates this question with a fair trial.
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, …
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 …
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 …
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.
Conservative Christians must know John Rawls. His philosophy has bled into our theology and is in the church. Is justice without social justice possible?
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, …
Should public discourse be neutral in regards to religion? Read more about neutrality and John Rawls’ use of comprehensive doctrines and public reason.
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 …
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. …
Our present situation urgently requires thinking men, to produce a thinking conservatism, not a reactionary one. And reflective conservatism, indeed, can be produced – as …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
I’ve recently read through the Russian philosopher Alexandr Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory, and overall, I must say I am quite impressed. His critique of …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
According to Machen, the state was an involuntary organization whose duty was to protect the freedom of individuals, families, and other private associations.
Robert Dabney was the Southern Presbyterian theologian and professor of ethics during the late 1800s, who provides a helpful polemic against moral relativism.
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 …
Cross-dressing is an abomination to God because it is a distortion to His creation. The police force and military ought to be cut-and-dry cases against …
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, …
Should Christians support reparations for American slavery? Some evangelicals believe so. Some have even attempted to make a biblical argument for reparations.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 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.
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 …
A key to understanding the present social justice theology is understanding liberation theology, and the key to understanding that is by understanding its history.
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.
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 …
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 …
To attribute racism and discrimination to all of these unequal distributions is to assume the worst. Scripture, however, commands us to assume the best.
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 …
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 …
Dr. Ronald Nash spent much of his academic career assessing and critiquing social justice. After years of research he offers three arguments against the growing …
Christians mistake difference of etiquette for gracelessness. Does being nice equal love? Should Calvinists sacrifice genuine unity for short-term accord?
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.
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.
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
