Bavinck: “if [Christ’s] kingdom is not *of*, it is certainly *in* this world, and is intended for it.”

Yellow Wagtail

If liberty needs faith, what kind of faith sustains it? Glenn Moots reviews John D. Wilsey’s Religious Freedom. loom.ly/FlDHsCY

But is a religiously neutral nation possible?

I'm a little worried that the discourse is careening towards the conclusion that Christianity and true liberty are fundamentally opposed to one another rather than the former being grounds for the latter.

For Christians, words are a gift from God, entrusted to us for proclaiming truth, teaching the faith, and building one another up in holiness. Yet in our present cultural moment, many words have been stripped of their biblical meaning… mdadams.substack.com/p/reclaiming-o…

In the very sermon that led to his arrest and occasioned his defense of religious liberty, Francis Makemie also affirmed the possibility of Christian nations: "For [the Magistrate] is the Minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. And that the

1/ Hillsdale College’s Dr. Matthew Mehan (Matt Mehan) has been selected for Heritage Foundation’s America250 Innovation Prize for a forthcoming book of fables tied to America’s 250th. 🧵

The study of history, leavened by Christian religion, will include 1) belief in the moral responsibility of every individual soul, 2) and sober admission of universal human depravity. Together, it means acknowledging the precariousness of civilization. We can’t take it for

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Niebuhr: “A perfectionist ethic … [has] the tragic [effect] of increasing complacency toward remediable imperfections in justice.”

When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. —Judges 5:8

My political philosophy is that I am for good things and against bad things.

Male Kingfisher seen on this mornings ramble.

I regret to inform you that the end of history never arrived nor will it as long as the Lord should tarry.

My last in series on Francis Makemie, affectionately referred to as the Father of American Presbyterianism. Makemie was a critical figure in the development of religious liberty rights in America. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. Reading the full scope of his known

According to WCF 23.3, it is the duty of the civil magistrate to protect the good name of all his people by not allowing any private person to offer indignity, etc to any other private person on the pretense of religion or infidelity.

Yeah, no. And also, what exactly would a state-based standard for sociability look like?