In this episode, CRCD executive director Trey Dimsdale talks with Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson, authors of the newly released Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics. This wide-ranging discussion covers a number of topics, focusing especially on what the natural-law tradition has to offer evangelicals
In challenging his fellow evangelicals to more faithful social action, the theologian Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003) lamented the lack of a “social program calling for a practical attack on acknowledged world evils.” Henry himself would work tirelessly to generate enthusiasm and support for such evangelical social action. But his
In the previous election, the victorious party campaigned on a message of “common sense.” The opposing party used similar language. Political observers can judge whether the program on offer was either common or sense, but the use of this term has become increasingly common in the public square, whether it comes
There has been a widespread resurgence of natural law thinking across the landscape of Protestant Christian higher education. While Roman Catholic colleges and universities have long incorporated natural law theory into their curriculum and practice, given its pride of place in Catholic social thought and the ongoing influence of Thomas
