Evangelicals in Civic Life publication

The decline of religious liberty is a major reason our culture wars are so brutal. By looking to the government to adjudicate our divisions, we’ve outsourced debate on what is true or false.

As conservatives contemplate how to respond to the threat of managerial oligarchy, we should, of course, be humble—but we must not be so afraid of our own imperfections that we are paralyzed into acquiescence under an evil system.

Left-liberals must recognize that sustaining the bargain of liberalism in a time of big government and ascendant cultural leftism requires generous accommodations for traditional religious believers and their institutions.

To say that the Ten Commandments are a codified expression of the natural law says nothing about which aspects of the natural law are to be enforced in civil law.

Conservatives and libertarians must both check their pride to work toward a new fusionism. Their common ground begins with humility.

The allure of moral, religious, and cultural uniformity mustn’t come at the expense of religious freedom.

The GOP needs people who put a Harvard or Yale diploma in a cheap frame in the basement and then go stick it to their former classmates.

Transgender ideology has powerful supporters, such as Amazon, but it is also weak.

By redefining the human person, we leave behind the moral imagination that built our civilization.

The public square in Western society is no longer a place where people of orthodox Christian faith can feel they belong with any degree of comfort.

A proper understanding of the Biblical meaning of dominion, is closely associated with stewardship of all of creation, including animals. This means they rightfully belong to God and present a unique duty of care to each of us to seek their flourishing.

The ceaseless quest for redemption in politics and culture may be one of the chronic infirmities of American national life, but it ultimately speaks well of who we are as a people.