Brad Littlejohn

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Brad Littlejohn was a Fellow in EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing and Evangelicals in Civic Life programs from 2022-2025. 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.

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Brad Littlejohn was a Fellow in EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing and Evangelicals in Civic Life programs from 2022-2025. 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.

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A religious right to abortion?

Brad Littlejohn

Pro-abortion activists are seizing (and twisting) religious liberty arguments.

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WORLD Opinions / December 29, 2022

Why Do We Love Christmas?

Brad Littlejohn

Once a year, rootless moderns find an anchor in the past.

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WORLD Opinions / December 26, 2022

Against Our Proletarianization

Brad Littlejohn

For too long, wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a plutocratic class more interested in dreaming than virtue and common sense.

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The American Conservative / December 12, 2022

Christian Nationalism or Christian Commonwealth? A Call for Clarity

Brad Littlejohn

Amid current confusion and controversy, we must chart a better vision for a Christian politics.

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Ad Fontes / December 12, 2022

Nationalism Must Reject Racism

Brad Littlejohn

It’s a dangerous mistake to build politics on any form of racial ideology

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WORLD Opinions / December 6, 2022

Slippery, selfish, and successful

Brad Littlejohn

Why the language of rights beat the pro-life cause at the ballot.

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WORLD Opinions / November 29, 2022

Against ‘Religious Liberty:’ The Inescapability of Public Religion

Brad Littlejohn

The aim of politics is living well together. To live well, we must pursue virtue, and to pursue virtue, we must have a concept of the highest good.

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American Reformer / November 29, 2022

A Divorce of Medicine from Healthcare

Brad Littlejohn

Will the government force doctors to do bodily harm to transgender patients?

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WORLD Opinions / November 25, 2022

The Stubborn Persistence of Conservative Religion in American Public Life

Brad Littlejohn

Hollinger lionizes the mainline Protestant elites of earlier generations as prophets of tolerance and global concord, while warning of the mindless and exclu­sionary faith of their evangelical supplanters.

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American Affairs Journal / November 22, 2022

The Piety of Patriotism: A Reply to Susan Hanssen

Brad Littlejohn

Unless we can recover a certain generosity towards those who came before us, we will find ourselves with nothing to pass on to those who come after.

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The Public Discourse / November 9, 2022

A Battle of Philosophies

Brad Littlejohn

Rival visions of history are on the ballot today.

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WORLD Opinions / November 8, 2022

Promising the Moon

Brad Littlejohn

Politicians keep making promises they cannot keep when we urgently need straight talk.

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WORLD Opinions / October 28, 2022

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.