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Sunday, April 19, 2026

"Accidental" Influences on the American Founding

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Over the years I've noticed claims of "accidental" influences on the American founding. What does that mean? Influences that t...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Asking the Right Questions

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On America's Declaration of Independence and In General.  I noted when discussing the sentiments of Leo Strauss ' followers that I d...
Saturday, April 04, 2026

Liberty of Conscience and the Persistence of Blasphemy Laws in the United States

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When I first started blogging on the issue of the political-theology of the American founding many years ago, I grappled with the notion tha...

Law and Liberty Symposium on Harvey Mansfield

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Check it out here . Harvey Mansfield is a Straussian. I don't consider myself a "Straussian." Though I am "Straussian inf...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Understanding What Drove Political-Theological Notions of Liberty of Conscience During The American Founding

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Catholics Persecuted Protestants; Protestants Persecuted Catholics; and Protestants Persecuted One Another. The different sects disagreed wi...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Reformed Calvinists Deserve Credit For Political Liberty, But not Liberty of Conscience or Religious Liberty

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Mark David Hall and his cohorts have shown an undeniably powerful, reformed/Calvinistic component driving the political-theological dimensi...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Congrats to our friend Mark David Hall

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The renowned scholar Mark David Hall (at George Fox and Regent Universities) recently was appointed to the White House's Religious Libe...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Great Britain v. America: "Christian Nations"?

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There is a quotation from the British jurist William Blackstone oft-cited in the "Christian Nation" debates that relates to Christ...