Evangelicals in Civic Life publication

What It Would Mean to Overturn Roe

Carl R. Trueman

Overturning Roe and Casey would not only protect the innocent, but also affirm the truth about humanity and remind us of our innate obligations to others.

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First Things / August 26, 2021

Conservatism Doesn’t Mean Putting Whorehouses In Boys’ Pockets

Nathanael Blake

Conservatism is about preserving the true sources of human flourishing in this life — family, faith, and community — rather than tearing them down in the name of liberal ideology.

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The Federalist / August 26, 2021

Leftists Are Living In A Fantasy World While Burning The Real One To The Ground

Nathanael Blake

Adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security.

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The Federalist / August 19, 2021

Josh Harris’s Message Remains the Same

Carl R. Trueman

Light on intellectual substance and shamelessly appealing to the emotional intuitions and needs of the customer base, the evangelical celebrity world is geared toward marketing the attractive personality as the branded product that will solve the problems of potential customers.

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First Things / August 12, 2021

Dogma Drives the Christian Life

Carl R. Trueman

Dogma is foundational and provides the lens by which everything else is to be understood. Christian hospitality, love, and hope all rest on truth claims, not sentiments.

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First Things / August 5, 2021

Common Sense Conservatism: An Interview with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee

Andrew T. Walker

EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker talks with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee about his governing philosophy and the future of conservatism.

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Public Discourse / July 24, 2021

Persuasion or Discipleship? Confidence, Creation, and Reconsidering Biblical Natural Law as a Strategy for Christian…

Andrew T. Walker

The West is in the throes of a convulsive death rattle, and there is to be no renovation to Western order apart from a rehabilitation of Christian natural law ethics. But before we seek to persuade others, we need to be persuaded ourselves.

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Supreme Court Delivers Big Win for Religious Liberty

Andrew T. Walker

According to the Supreme Court, what the city of Philadelphia did in refusing to offer an exemption to Catholic Social Services violates the free establishment clause of the First Amendment because it forced CSS to choose between its mission and its convictions. That’s an unworkable solution at odds with our Constitution.

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Kentucky Today / June 17, 2021

Left Demands That Big Business Boycott States That Don’t Want Abortion

Nathanael Blake

The managerial oligarchy, along with its enablers, advocates, and hangers-on, believes that it has the right to rule the rest of us — government by the wealthy and connected, for the wealthy and connected, and of the wealthy and connected.

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The Federalist / June 16, 2021

How Transgender Ideology Takes Children Hostage

Nathanael Blake

Many who — rightly — want to be compassionate toward those diagnosed with gender dysphoria have been reluctant to challenge the demands of transgender activists. But genuine compassion depends on truth, and the truth is that the claims of transgenderism are fundamentally mystical, even magical, rather than medical.

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National Review Online / June 10, 2021

Pride Month Calls for a Response of Joyful Truth from Christians

Andrew T. Walker

As culture presses against the church, we must lean even deeper into our faith and its millennia-old teachings with unwavering confidence.

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Baptist Press / June 3, 2021

Thinking Christianly about Goods and Rights with Florida’s “Big Tech” Bill

Andrew T. Walker

The tension that Christians need to wrestle with is not dispensing with either procedural rights or substantive goods, but understanding how rights serve the good and under what conditions competing rights claims yield to particular goods, in this case, the good of knowledge and political discourse. There is no easy formula here. It is messy and is why Christians must think carefully about the responsibilities of a healthy social order.

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