Referendum seeks to eliminate the word “mother” and reference to marriage from the Irish constitution. __________ For more resources to live like a...
Leap Day: How Clocks and Calendars Shape Us
Thinking about our relationship to time from a Judeo-Christian understanding. __________ Request your copy of Case for Life by Scott Klusendorf with...
Epistemology Has Consequences
Ideas tend to sprout up in academia, but the ones that matter do not stay there. Even when birthed in seemingly abstract fields like epistemology...
Marsilius of Padua on the Relationship of Church and State
Seven hundred years ago, Italian scholar Marsilius of Padua helped lay the foundation for our modern ideas of popular sovereignty. In his book...
Thank God for Constantine?
Seventeen hundred years ago this year, Constantine defeated his co-emperor Licinius, ending a series of civil wars and consolidating power as sole...
Best of Breakpoint: Asbury and the History of American Revivals
This Breakpoint was originally published on February 21, 2023. ___ Two weeks ago, what started as a routine (and, according to the preacher,...
Best of Breakpoint: What Music Is For in Corporate Worship
Today, January 13, we remember the Hussites who, on this day in 1501, published the first hymnal in history written in the language of the common...
Bernard of Clairvaux on the Nativity
Many Christians are familiar with the beautiful and tender words of the medieval theologian Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) in the hymns “O Sacred...
Rob Reiner’s New Documentary on Christian Nationalism
Rob Reiner, known for his role as “Meathead” in the 1970s sitcom All in the Family and for producing movie classics like The Princess Bride,...
What Really Happened at Plymouth
Revisionist attempts to reinterpret the first Thanksgiving have muddled the history of Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims. Some on the right call the...
The Legacy of John Witherspoon
The month of November marks the death of John Witherspoon, one of the most important and most underrated of the American founding fathers. Born in...
Barbaric Norms: Hamas, Israel, and Just War
The despicable and horrendous attacks by Hamas against civilians last week, including beheading children and kidnapping the elderly, seems a...
Live by Ideology, Die by Ideology
Two significant academic scandals from the past year underscore why the new book Critical Dilemma, written by Drs. Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer, is so...
Johannes Kepler, Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him
November marks the death of Johannes Kepler, one of the most important figures of the Scientific Revolution and a scientist who was motivated by his...
Athanasius On the Incarnation
A few years ago, my colleague Dr. Glenn Sunshine wrote an introduction to one of the greatest works of Christian antiquity, Athanasius’ On the...