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March 2021

March 23, 2021

The censorship of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the unbooking of Ryan T. Anderson

That's the title of an essay I published last Thursday over at Public Discourse. Here's...

September 2020

September 11, 2020

Gotta Serve Somebody? Religious Liberty, Freedom of Conscience, and Religion as Comprehensive Doctrine

That's the title of an article I recently published in the journal, Studies in Christian...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

Serious work on abortion by female prolife scholars

In my previous post, I listed and linked to six books author by prolife authors,...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Call for Papers: “Doing Justice Without Doing Harm”

HT: Rick Garnett at Mirror of Justice This looks really interesting. What follows is republished...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

My chapter in the new book, Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

Northern Illinois University Press has just published Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

The Sun’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken: An Analogy for Chick-Fil-A Skeptics

I came cross this blog post last night via the Facebook wall of Hunter Baker....

April 2012

April 30, 2012

The Joy of Calvinism

I just noticed that Greg Forster has published a new book, The Joy of Calvinism....

April 05, 2012

When the Saint Goes Swearing: Mormonism and the Romney Candidacy

In 2007, I published an article at First Thing's On the Square, "When the Saint...

March 2012

March 02, 2012

What Reagan Can Teach Romney and Santorum

That's the title of my latest piece over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

February 2012

February 03, 2012

The New Anti-Catholicism: Occupy the Vatican

That's the title of my latest column over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

An Uncomfortable and Awkward Question for Conservative Christian Gingrich Supporters

Are you prepared for America to have a First Lady who was a home wrecker...

January 19, 2012

My critique of Roe v. Wade and its progeny

Sunday, January 22, is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1973). Even though many...

January 09, 2012

Ken Starr: Can I Vote For a Mormon?

Judge Ken Starr, the President of Baylor University (where I am a tenured faculty member...

December 2011

December 09, 2011

Newt Gingrich, Redemption, and the Presidency

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's are some...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

Religion, Politics, and the Public Square

Over the years I've published several academic articles dealing with the separation of church and...

November 11, 2011

The Question Behind Our Political Divisions

That is the title of my most recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

Government Forms (or Deforms) Your Soul

That is the title of an article I published last year (vol. 21, no. 5,...

October 14, 2011

President Obama: Ex-Liberal

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

October 07, 2011

Robert P. George and Russell Moore discuss religion in the public square

Here's an outstanding discussion between a Catholic, Robert P. George (Princeton University), and an Evangelical,...

September 2011

September 02, 2011

Secular Gnosticism and “The New York Times”

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

A Lesson on Rhetoric from the “West Wing”

President Obama should hire Rob Lowe's character as a speech writer.

July 22, 2011

Surprise: The Reformation Happened!

That's the title of my latest entry over at the Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

July 08, 2011

Statecraft, Soulcraft, and the Politics of Envy

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

June 2011

June 24, 2011

Unexamined Ballot, Not Worth Casting

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

June 10, 2011

Mormonism, Catholicism, and the Romney Candidacy

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. It begins this way:...

June 07, 2011

Newsweek’s offensive cover

Imagine it is the summer of 2000 soon after presidential candidate Al Gore chose Senator...

May 2011

May 27, 2011

A Second Look at “First Things”

That is the title of my recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. It is adapted...

May 13, 2011

Analogies and the death of Bin Laden

That's the title of my latest column over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

May 03, 2011

Al Mohler: Killing of bin Laden was just, but not an act of justice. Is this possible?

Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, makes this statement in a recent...

May 01, 2011

Now we know why Donald Trump has so much hair…

He needs it to protect his thin skin.