Brad Littlejohn

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 Things, National Affairs, American Affairs, The American Conservative, The Public Discourse, American Compass, Modern Age, Law 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 Ethics, Mere Orthodoxy, Ad Fontes, Plough, Comment, 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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