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God Is Not on the Ballot

On the morning of November 6, the day after the presidential election, there will be exploded heads littering the American political landscape. (I speak...

An Illiberal Moment

In yet another narrowly contested election year in the United States, the country’s liberal political order has come under increasing attack, both intellectually and...

Bread and Circuses

In The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton once argued that “the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.”...

Bishops Respond to Former President’s Shooting

Episcopal Church leaders responded to news of a bullet grazing former President Donald Trump's ear at a Pennsylvania campaign rally July 13 with calls to prayer and calming words for a troubled nation.

What Is Government For?

When I was a senior in college, I got to meet Dr. Cornel West, who had come to speak on my campus. During his...

The Political Soul Possessed:  A Warning Against Election Idolatry

Upon my life, the tracks have vanished, We’ve lost our way, what shall we do? It must be a demon’s leading us This way and that around...

Richard Mouw’s Tips for Political Wrestling

The Rev. Dr. W.L. (Chip) Prehn reviews How to Be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor.

Beyond Policy Advocacy: Clarifying the Church’s Social Ministry

By Timothy Sedgwick and Philip Turner For the last 40 years we have been friends in conversation together as professors of Christian ethics at...

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

The coronation of Charles III was easily the most subversive event of my lifetime. If it is fair to say that the coronation was...

For Maundy Thursday

By Garwood Anderson The Maundy Thursday liturgy is probably my favorite of the year. So much happens, from the washing of feet to the Garden...

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