Independence Day After Glow
This is the first Independence Day in recent memory that fell on a Thursday, thus giving the week more of a Thanksgiving Day rhythm than the typical federal holiday pattern of a three-day weekend....
View ArticleThe American Jesus on the Un-American Calvin
Zach Hunt has read Calvin and he is disgusted. Here’s part of what he has to say to Calvin himself: [Quotations from Calvin on predestination and human wickedness] are, as you demonstrate so well, the...
View ArticleWe Need a Religion that Unites
That was the dream of the founders. Ben Franklin stopped going to hear the Presbyterian pastor, Jedediah Andrews, because the printer believed Andrews’ turned his hearers not into good citizens but...
View ArticleWhen Did Christian America End?
For some it happened recently. This blogger doesn’t refer to the Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage, but it’s hard not to think he has it in mind: The 350-year marriage of Protestant Christian...
View ArticleBringing Up the Rear
If Islam is going to develop into a religion of peace and tolerance, it doesn’t need either a Reformation or an Enlightenment, according to Daniel Philpott. Instead it needs a Vatican Council —...
View ArticleMore Burke, Less Locke
Ben Sasse addressed CPAC yesterday and Scott Clark has the video under the heading, “The Government Exists to Secure Natural Rights.” I immediately wondered if this commits the federal government to...
View ArticleThe Puritan Fetish
Why do Reformed Protestants think appealing to the Puritans settles it? Why does Patrick Ramsey think John Ball’s view of justification is significant? While denying the Roman Catholic doctrine that...
View ArticleRoman Catholics at Plymouth Rock?
In the department of strange bedfellows comes George Weigel’s praise for the Museum of the Bible: On September 29, 1952, the publication of the complete Revised Standard Version of the Bible was...
View ArticleTheonomists All
If you thought Calvinists and Muslims had a problem accepting political liberalism, wait til you see this (from a review of American Law from a Catholic Perspective: Through A Clearer Lens): Over and...
View ArticleWhat Historians Do
Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, is not a conservative. His ethic background is both Jewish and Irish, so chances are he is not a...
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