Commenter Jaime A. Headden writes: So, Jason, let’s try and consider what taking “marriage� off the books and simply replacing that term with another less loaded one? What do you think would happen, as a thought experiment? I hate to do this, but I feel like I have to restate the question in a...

Put that book on my reading list! Nicholas Wolterstorff “is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” and his new book from Princeton University Press will probably make about as serious an ...

At American Creation my friend Tom Van Dyke points to the learned Joseph Story’s commentaries on the Constitution and religion. To his credit, Van Dyke gives us a long excerpt from Story, so we can read it in context. You can read the original here. Included in the longer except is the quotati...

That was the title of one of Andrew Sullivan’s recent posts warning against the extremes of secularism. Yet, many of us are also wary of the extremes of sectarian religious politics (of the “Christian” or “Judeo-Christian” sort). I endorse a softer secularism. And if it...

This post focuses on the notion oft-repeated in Founding era political pulpits that the Ancient Israelites had a “republic.” The Biblical record does not teach this. Such a notion is wholly a product of Enlightenment rationalism, not of historic orthodox biblical Christianity. And that&#...

One concern about liberaltarianism is that libertarians will lose something important in the process. I’m not convinced that this is a very pressing concern. After all, liberaltarianism is a project that exists mostly in a few blog posts at the moment. It’s nothing like a voting strategy...

From one of my favorite blogs: The conversion of genuine libertarian groups into conservative groups is happening before our eyes. At first the libertarians decide they want conservative money. To get that cash they start to downplay the issues that divide libertarians from conservatives. Here and t...

Even though the late D. James Kennedy has passed, Coral Ridge Ministries keeps on repeating its propaganda special “One Nation Under God.” So I’ll still keep responding to it. The special includes some legitimate respectable scholars (Mary Thompson, James Hutson, Donald Lutz) along...

How does one manage to interpret scripture in a scientific world? In the comments following my 12/5/07 blog post, “Two Books Approach to Christianity,” an astute commenter, Jarred, referenced the Three-Legged Stool and the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. I replied at the time that at some point ...

John Witherspoon was both an orthodox Christian and a philosophical rationalist, a man of the Enlightenment. There is evidence in the historical record of Witherspoon giving orthodox sermons. However, as President of Princeton University (then The College of New Jersey) when he taught James Madison ...