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Christianity, The Best Friend to Good Government

Miles Smith — June 3, 2024

Christianity, The Best Friend to Good Government

Who is the final arbiter for Christian conduct in politics?

John Witherspoon, Abduction, Slavery, and the New Testament

Andrew Koperski — January 10, 2023

John Witherspoon, Abduction, Slavery, and the New Testament

If we find Witherspoon guilty on these specific charges, we will not easily acquit the New Testament.

Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Islam in 19th Century Palestine

Miles Smith — November 28, 2023

Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Islam in 19th Century Palestine

What happened when Anglicans tried converting Greek and Arab Orthodox Christians in 19th century Palestine?

The Disestablished Establishment: morality and nation in 1849

Miles Smith — August 15, 2022

The Disestablished Establishment: morality and nation in 1849

The First Amendment and the push for disestablishment from the 1780s to the Jacksonian Era redefined the history of the religion and more particularly Christianity in Protestant North America. Disestablishment…

Leithart on empire and Russia/Ukraine

Miles Smith — March 25, 2022

Leithart on empire and Russia/Ukraine

Segments of the Christian right have flirted with a sort of schadenfreude during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The West, they believe, is so bad and the American regime so…

Anglican Political Theology and the American Republic

Miles Smith — November 29, 2021

Anglican Political Theology and the American Republic

Jon Askonas, a professor of politics at Catholic University of America, recently delivered an address on Anglican political theology to Providence Magazine’s Christianity and National Security Conference. His address is…

On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 2: Is Modernity a Myth?)

Joseph Minich — July 23, 2021

On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 2: Is Modernity a Myth?)

5. Before we seek to understand modernity, it is fitting to ask whether there is anything to be understood in the first place. Is “modernity” actually definable in any substantive…