Tag: Politics
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Christian Nationalism: Towards a Definition and Taxonomy
There are at least 4 different definitions of Christian nationalism floating around so I want to provide something of a taxonomy for the discussion: First, the progressive definition. Progressives treat “Christian nationalism” as synonymous with racism/white supremacy, fascism, Nazism, religious coercion, etc. Of course, this is how progressives have labeled all conservatives for a long…
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Do Conservative Christians Care for the Poor?
Tim Keller and other politically left-leaning Christian leaders have perpetuated the progressive myth that right-leaning Christians do not care for the poor. Actually, studies show that evangelicals, particularly Southern evangelicals, are the most generous and philanthropic group in America. See here (https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on-u-s-generosity/) on giving by states based on percentage of AGI – other than Utah…
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Note on Ecclesiocentric Christian Nationalism: A Discussion in the Early Stages
What is “Christian nationalism”? There are many varieties floating around, but here’s my stab at it. While Stephen Wolfe may have made the label prominent with his book, this is a much wider discussion. Megachurch pastors like Josh Howerton are using the label and defining carefully what they mean by it. Howerton has 25k+ in…
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American Public Schools and the Soviet Strategy
If you were the communist leadership of the Soviet Union, and your goal was to eliminate religion from a country of 100 million people, how would you do it? You can’t really force people to stop being religious—because history shows that when you try to coerce religious people into abandoning their faith, you often make…
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The Folly of Women in Combat: A Parable of Moral and Cultural Decline
The drive to place women in combat is not an advance of civilization but a mark of its decay. It reveals a society that no longer knows what a woman is, what a man is, or why those differences once mattered. The story begins in 1978, when female sailors sued the U.S. Navy for the…
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The Vibe Keeps Shifting: Charlie Kirk’s Martyrdom, Fighting to Win, and What Comes Next
[A version of this article will appear in The Federalist soon.] Can you feel it? The winds have shifted. The vibe has shifted. Suddenly all the cultural momentum is on the right. That doesn’t mean it will stay shifted; culture is fickle, and it could shift back leftward at some point. The vibe shift does…
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Turning Point?
At our weekly Wednesday vespers service last night, I took the opportunity to say a few words about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Some of that is reproduced here. I have not followed Charlie’s work closely all that long, but I have been greatly impressed by him, especially as it was obvious that he had…
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Civil Fathers
Civil magistrates are fathers to their people. But what kind of fathers are they? If the citizenry is irresponsible and undisciplined, he has to be a controlling father – usually some kind of tyrant, because they people cannot govern themselves. The citizens are like little children who need someone to do everything for them. Think…
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Home: What Christian Nationalism Is Really About
Christian nationalism grows out of and is undergirded by Christian familialism. There can be no Christian nation where there are not countless Christian families. And where there are happy and holy Christian families, the broader Christianization of the nation is sure to follow. Christian nationalism starts around the dining table. It starts in neighborhoods and…
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Flynn-Paul on Amerindians
Here is Jeff Flynn-Paul on what early Western explorers believed about the people (“Indians”) they encountered in the new world of the Americas: Where does that lead us in terms of European prejudice against the Indians they found in the Americas? The historian Alden T. Vaughan summed up the longstanding consensus on European prejudice toward…
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