The Comity of Nations: Brief Thoughts on a Useful but Neglected Concept
The notion of minding one’s own country’s business is not the principle which governs contemporary politics.
Those that disregard comity make themselves judges over strangers in foreign places—in many cases ones they have never been, nor ever will be. The revolutionary desire for utopia leads people to work themselves into perpetual anxious fits over things well outside their power or responsibility. Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is... Continue Reading
DEI’s “Grape-Nuts problem”
The University of Florida jettisons its DEI office—and more of us should, too.
DEI delivers the opposite of what it promises. It delivers not diversity but a narrow ideology. It delivers not equity but different advantages and disadvantages based on pre-judged hierarchical group identities. It delivers not inclusion but the systemic coercion and exclusion of those who dare question its methods. On March 1, the University of... Continue Reading
How Feminism Ends
When women want relationships, a post-conservative world, and more in this week's roundup.
Review of “How Feminism Ends”… “if this is the end of feminism, then it doesn’t quite feel fair. If women are finally “free,” then why is it still so hard to be female? And why, after all of our hard work, are the best parts of history still made by males?” Ginerva Davis has... Continue Reading
Resetting Global Anglicanism as Reformed and Catholic
For Anglicans Scripture is not the only authority in the church or the Christian life, but it is the final and highest authority, governing other authorities.
The Global Anglican Future Conference and the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches–which combined represent an estimated 85% of Anglicans worldwide in predominately non-Western countries–gathered in April of 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to produce the Kigali Commitment, which has urged the leadership of the Church of England to repent, and called for a significant reset... Continue Reading
Against Requiring Background Checks
The PCA would set a dangerous precedent with a "shall"...
It is not for the General Assembly to require lower courts or churches to dispose of their property against their will. Writing such provisions into the PCA constitution would set a dangerous precedent and would undermine the freedom and rights of local churches. Overtures to the 51st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in... Continue Reading
It’s a Religious Movement, Not a Disease
Historians may be changing the way they look at contemporary evangelicalism.
Everyone understands that scientists, both natural and humanistic, interpret evidence, whether viruses, presidents, or evangelists. Historians evaluate data as much as public health experts. Still, the best historical judgments do not change with the headlines. A virus may require government to respond, but Protestants from the past do not. Calls for amnesty among those... Continue Reading
The Struggle for Soul in Christian Higher Education: Burtchaell was Right, and I Was Wrong, Part II
If a college or university has swallowed “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” ideology whole, orthodox Christianity will move out as it moves in.
A serious Christian school must have an explicit, orthodox, Christian mission and it has to hire administrators, faculty, and staff for that mission. It has to have a fully informed and committed board that insists on those things happening. Above all, it needs a president committed to an orthodox vision who is willing to insist... Continue Reading
Compulsory Feminism
Anti-discrimination ideology is based on a hyper-individualistic conception of what it means to have a successful life, especially for women.
Male workforce participation has steadily declined under the anti-discrimination regime. It is presently under 70 percent, a historic low. Many would like to believe that we can address these problems while preserving the anti-discrimination sexual constitution. But the problem of a lack of marriageable men and other breakdowns in the male–female dance are endemic to... Continue Reading
Further Remarks Concerning the Fitness for Office Controversy in the Presbyterian Church in America
It is absolutely essential that we return to a state of affairs in which it is unthinkable that someone who feels a desire to break Lev. 18:22 would ever be a leader among us.
Christ is one, and he alone is righteousness for all who believe in him, irrespective of anything in themselves and irrespective of their place in the church. But office has higher standards than membership, is available only to a select few (Jas. 3:1), and is not meant to glorify the ones who hold it but so that... Continue Reading
Nihilism—in Nazi Germany and Today
The great temptation of our day, that of conflating politics with Christianity, is intense.
Ours is a time of anthropological crisis when we as a society cannot agree on what it means to be human. In such a context, theologians who faced that issue in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s are obvious dialogue partners upon whom we can draw. Twice in the last ten days my dear... Continue Reading
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