This is my talk from the 2023 National Convivium.
Category: Politics
Politics of Love
I delivered a talk on the subject of a politics of love at the Theopolis Ministry Conference.
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Should We Put Flags in Churches? (with Dr Miles Smith)
A couple of years ago, our friend Miles Smith wrote a First Things piece on the history of national flags in churches. We brought him on the podcast to discuss the issue with us.
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Interview with Coalition for Marriage
I was recently interviewed by Tony Rucinski of Coalition for Marriage.
Yoram Hazony on Scripture as Political Philosophy
Yoram Hazony is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is the author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, God and Politics in Esther, The Virtue of Nationalism, and, more recently, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. He joins me for a discussion of the Bible as a political text.
Within the conversation, I also mention Joshua Berman’s Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Eric Nelson’s The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes’s, The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel, and Yechiel Leiter’s John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible.
The Story of Abortion in America (with Leah Savas)
Leah Savas reports on abortion for WORLD News Group. She recently co-wrote a book with Marvin Olasky, The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652–2022. She joins me and my wife, Susannah Black Roberts, to discuss the book and the subject of abortion more broadly.
The Genesis of Gender (with Abigail Favale)
Abigail Favale joins us for a discussion of her book The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, exploring the contemporary ‘gender paradigm’ its character, its dangers, and how we ought best respond to it.
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American Nationhood And Nationalisms (with Miles Smith)
Dr Miles Smith, Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College, joins me for a discussion of American nationhood and nationalism. We discuss the distinctive historical and cultural background that should ground contemporary discussions of so-called American Christian nationalism.
On The Monarchy
Matt, Andrew, and I reflect upon the significance of the monarchy in the wake of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
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The Bible as a Source for Political Reflection
The Byzantine Scotist generously invited me to join him on his show for a discussion of some of the ways that the Scriptures can serve as a source for political reflection. Unfortunately, I was having problems with my connection, so there is no video and the audio is poor at some points.
At one point I mentioned this discussion on the subject of the morality of voting.
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