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William Mercer Green, *The Influence of Christianity Upon the Welfare of Nations*
In 1831 William Mercer Green, an Episcopal clergymen and later bishop of Mississippi, used a lecture at the University of North Carolina to extol…

Another Epigram of Buchanan: Icones 4
The fourth of George Buchanan's Neo-Latin ICONES.

“Citizenship” in Heaven
Is Paul making a point about politics?

How Dangerous was Non-Conformity under Rome?
A reminder that Rome was not a proto-fascist or proto-Stalinist system.

John Henry Hobart on Exoticism and Patriotism, 1825
It was, declared the bishop, the United States’ “civil and religious institutions that we may, without the imputation of vainglory, boast the preeminence.”