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The Theological Debate around the Declaration of Independence - Providence
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (22+ words) 250 years on, the legacy of the English Civil War of the 17th century continues to define debates around the American founding...
The Moment I, an Arab, Became American - Providence
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (33+ words) While no easy thing to leave Iraq and become American, I recognize God's providence in granting me the opportunity to live in peace in a free land and to honor my adoptive country...
A Christian Approach to International Relations: Robert Joustra's "Christ & Covenant in Global Politics" - Providence
2+ week, 4+ day ago (194+ words) In his new book, Calvin University professor Robert Joustra sets out to develop a distinctively Christian approach to global politics on its own terms, one that neither confines religion to the private sphere nor baptizes contemporary political ideologies...
Creed & Covenant: In Search of an American Mythos - Providence
3+ week, 4+ day ago (255+ words) To restore America's creed and covenant, we must recover the American mythos, the canon of stories that has defined the American people for centuries...
Secularism: Universal to the West, Provincial to Everywhere Else - Providence
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (380+ words) Kevin Flatt's new book, "Secularization, Social Order, and World History" argues that the decline of religion is not an inevitable quasi-Hegelian phenomenon, but a particular...
Iraq's New Christian Patriarch Inherits a Vanishing Flock - Providence
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (32+ words) Though the threat from ISIS has abated, Iran-backed Shiite militias continue to terrorize the Christian minority in Iraq. The US must push Baghdad to protect the few Christians left in Iraq....
How to Live amid Civilizational Decline - Providence
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (34+ words) Civilization is best preserved through forward-looking dynamism, not reactionary nostalgia. Yet every great City of Man must one day fall, and so our final hope must rest in the eternal City of God....
Pope Leo's Missed Opportunity in Magnifica Humanitas - Providence
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (33+ words) Pope Leo's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, conspicuously fails to reference the theological anthropology articulated by Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, a lacuna which, purposefully or not, surrenders too much to the present zeitgeist...
The Centrality of Religious Freedom - Providence
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (310+ words) A new book argues that religious freedom is not only valuable in itself but foundational to the protection of other essential rights....
And for All Those in Authority - Providence
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (430+ words) From Normandy to the raid on bin Laden, America's leaders have turned to prayer'seeking strength from a power greater than their own...