Brad Littlejohn

Fellow

Brad Littlejohn is a Fellow in EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing and Evangelicals in Civic Life programs.  His wide-ranging research and writing encompasses work on the relation of digital technology and embodiment, the appropriate limits of free speech, the nature of freedom and authority in the Christian tradition, and the retrieval of a Protestant natural law ethic. He is the author of Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License (B&H, 2025), and has authored or edited eighteen other books. He is a weekly Opinion Contributor at WORLD Magazine, and publishes extensively in other outlets such as First ThingsNational AffairsAmerican AffairsThe American ConservativeThe Public DiscourseAmerican CompassModern AgeLaw and Liberty, and many more.

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Brad Littlejohn is a Fellow in EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing and Evangelicals in Civic Life programs.  His wide-ranging research and writing encompasses work on the relation of digital technology and embodiment, the appropriate limits of free speech, the nature of freedom and authority in the Christian tradition, and the retrieval of a Protestant natural law ethic. He is the author of Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License (B&H, 2025), and has authored or edited eighteen other books. He is a weekly Opinion Contributor at WORLD Magazine, and publishes extensively in other outlets such as First ThingsNational AffairsAmerican AffairsThe American ConservativeThe Public DiscourseAmerican CompassModern AgeLaw and Liberty, and many more.

In 2013 he founded the Davenant Institute, an organization dedicated to retrieving and renewing the Protestant theological and ethical tradition, and served for more than ten years as its President, before joining EPPC full-time in early 2024; he now serves as its President Emeritus. Before initially joining EPPC as a part-time Fellow in 2022, he worked as a Senior Fellow of the Edmund Burke Foundation as lead author on multi-year project entitled “Foundations of Liberty: Rediscovering the Anglo-American Conservative Tradition.”

As a scholar and writer in the fields of Christian ethics historical theology,  he earned his PhD in Theological Ethics at the University of Edinburgh in 2014, where he studied the relationship of freedom and authority in the English Reformation. His writing in Christian theology and ethics has been published in outlets such as The Journal of the Sociey of Christian EthicsMere OrthodoxyAd Fontes, PloughComment, The Gospel Coalition, and many other journals.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Professor of Christian History at DAvenant Hall, and has also taught at Bethlehem College , Moody Bible Institute, and Patrick Henry College, and served as Headmaster of Loudoun Classical School.

You can find all of his work and regular commentary at bradlittlejohn.substack.com.

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Parents Can’t Fight Porn Alone

Clare Morell

Madi grew up in a religious home, blessed with attentive parents who took the dangers of technology seriously. They installed…

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First Things / January 14, 2025

Remaining in Neverland

Brad Littlejohn

Younger Americans are not learning how to stand on their own two feet.

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WORLD Opinions / January 10, 2025

Something Wicked this way comes

Brad Littlejohn

A mistake by Mattel may bring needed attention to pornified products marketed to children.

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WORLD Opinions / December 19, 2024

The clock is ticking for TikTok

Brad Littlejohn

China’s ByteDance should accept a court ruling and find an American buyer for its social media platform.

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WORLD Opinions / December 12, 2024

Regulating pornography

Brad Littlejohn

A diverse coalition agrees it is more important to protect children than the sexual appetites of adults.

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WORLD Opinions / December 6, 2024

Taking the easy way out?

Brad Littlejohn

The deadly logic of assisted suicide.

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WORLD Opinions / November 27, 2024

EPPC Scholars File Supreme Court Brief in Support of Texas’ Pornography Website Age Verification Law

Eric Kniffin

On November 22, 2024, EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of EPPC…

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PDF / November 25, 2024

Pro-family is the new pro-life

Brad Littlejohn

How conservatives can work to change our culture’s hostility toward families

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WORLD Opinions / November 20, 2024

Better living through AI?

Brad Littlejohn

If you believe it will improve automated customer service, press 1.

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WORLD Opinions / November 18, 2024

Review – The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures

Brad Littlejohn

The book The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by Oliver O’Donovan is reviewed. Click here to continue reading.

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Crammer Theological Journal / October 31, 2024

Of course, TikTok knew

Brad Littlejohn

Leaked memos reveal that the platform’s executives were well aware of how dangerous their product is for children.

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WORLD Opinions / October 30, 2024

Weather worries

Brad Littlejohn

Two recent major hurricanes magnified the lack of trust between the governed and those governing them.

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WORLD Opinions / October 24, 2024

Commonwealth Dispatches from Fellow Brad Littlejohn of the Evangelicals in Civic Life program features regular commentary on the retrieval and renewal of a Protestant vision for securing ordered liberty and promoting the common good in an increasingly post-Protestant America.