Up early for a flight to DC to participate in a book launch event for Robert P. George at American Enterprise Institute. You can watch live at 12:30 PM EST. Details here. aei.org/events/seeking…

Parental rights are for all parents. They're for religious parents AND secular parents; conservatives AND progressives. Parents' rights are not unlimited, but they centrally include the right to direct the moral and religious formation of children. firstthings.com/can-progressiv…

My new book, *Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment* is officially published today and is being made available by the publisher, Encounter Books, at a 25% discount. The promo code is AGEOFFEELING.

please make your denominational affiliation easily identifiable on your church’s website thanks, everyone

Gay marriage has a hidden cost and children are paying the price It's time for the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell vs. Hodges. 🧵

I'm pleased to announce a new Thinking in Public today with Professor Robert P. George (Robert P. George), "Truth and Creation Order" about his latest book, "Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth." You can watch or listen at the link below. youtu.be/hklPbkuB1C0

Hard to overstate Southern Seminary's influence on the South's intellectual formation; by 1870 Baptists represented ca 40-45% of the region's religious adherents--a bit more than Methodists--and Southern Seminary was ***the only*** Baptist seminary in an area the size of Western Europe.

My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,

From a Kentuckian who was once a classmate of Tolkien:

Charles Spurgeon out-published everyone in the English language. But he wasn’t building a brand. He was pouring out his life for the gospel. acton.org/religion-liber…

Some relevant reading for many people on this website over the last few days.

We’re All Epicureans Now Kayla Bartsch on "The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination" by Aaron Alexander Zubia Notre Dame Press

And it's historical revisionism to ignore that it was "rejected" in 2024 for procedural rather than theological reasons. Does any other prominent Protestant confession of faith include the full text of a creed within one article?

The 39 Articles doesn't.

Here’s a description of the French Revolution by Tocqueville I’d never seen: “Half-way down the stairs, we threw ourselves out of the window in order to get to the ground more quickly.”

Thick black ecclesiastical lines not only build healthy churches; they build real respect. I admire Andrew T. Walker because he’s a real Baptist and someone I know committed to the cool, and uncool, of being a Southern Baptist. That’s who I’d want to follow if I was a Baptist.

This piece on increasing your “surface area” for opportunity (as opposed to luck) is a good picture of what the church could be at its best. open.substack.com/pub/usefulfict…

I have an essay in Public Discourse today that seeks to properly situate the use of natural law in Christian ethics. It is an Augustinian account of the natural law that acknowledges both the necessity and limitations of natural law. thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/07/98503/

Great article by Matt Emerson. It is judicious, distinctive, and restrained compared to other retrieval instincts. Retrieval for the sake of strengthening Baptist identity—instead of running from it due to theological and sociological insecurity—is the way.