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