Musings on history, politics, religion, and all the other things we take too seriously in the 21st Century.
University of Florida professor Samuel Goldman has an important piece at Compact Magazine this week. Christian Zionism, Goldman rightly notes, is not a creation of Dispensationalism or the 20th century.…
An essential aspect of debates over political theology and Christian politics in the 21st century revolves around the question of whether the government can enforce the first table of the…
James Baird, a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, is releasing his King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government this week. It is a worthwhile work;…
Between 1785 and 1788 two major Protestant groups—parishioners in the Church of England and Presbyterians—confronted the political changes that occurred because of the founding of the American republic in the…
When Timothy Keller published The Reason for God in 2008, the work was widely understood to be an apologetic for Christianity to secular liberal society. The work’s title alludes to…
In the 160 years between the US Civil War and 2025, history and literature of the American South have offered an ahistorical blending of the politics and religion of the…
Rev. Dr. Kevin DeYoung and Rev. James Baird, two teaching elders in the Presbyterian Church in America, have recently carried on a civil but substantive debate on the nature of…
By the late Victorian Era, Church of England and to a lesser extent Protestant Episcopal Church clerics and intellectuals began to write works aiming to present a sort of post-mortem…
The aftermath of the Civil War saw a significant rethinking of racial theory among southern Presbyterians. Benjamin Morgan Palmer Jr. and Robert Lewis Dabney in particular took up “a defense…
Mid-19th Century Britain and to a lesser extent the United States of the same era became the arenas of the great debates over the relationship between Christianity, free trade, nationalism,…
