Bradford Littlejohn

The founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »

In The Case for Nationalism, Rich Lowry argues that America’s strong nationalist tradition should be preserved. Continue Reading »

The recent “Open Letter Against the New Nationalism” published at Commonweal makes little effort to target its salvos accurately. Continue Reading »

Last Tuesday, leading representatives of different models of conservative American Protestantism gathered at Biola University to discuss and debate the “Future of Protestantism.” Peter Leithart, an ecumenically-oriented apostle of “Reformational catholicism” faced down Fred Sanders of Biola, a spokesman for the “unwashed masses of low-church evangelicals” and Carl Trueman of Westminster Seminary, an unapologetic representative of Calvinistic confessionalism. Those hoping for a hard-hitting debate, or a quick and full resolution of the questions, were bound to be disappointed: the three interlocutors were much too patient, irenic, and thoughtful for that. No, it was a conversation, and like almost all good conversations, inconclusive, an invitation to further conversation. Continue Reading »