The Adams Bible
John Quincy Adams, Scripture, and American Protestantism In 1815, John Quincy Adams (JQA) was not quite convinced of the “Athanasian […]
Lockean Citizenship
Birthright and Consent In case you had not heard, the fate of birthright citizenship and the meaning of the Fourteenth […]
Never Despair
Discipline, Comfort, and the Uses of Providence “Ours is a kind of struggle designed, dare I say, by Providence to […]
Why They Came
Present focus—at least some of it—is rightly directed at the United States semiquincentennial this July. Let us pray that either […]
The Ethic of Civility
David French and the “Talarico moment” In 1987, the sociologist James Davison Hunter identified a new political posture, an adoption […]
F’s in the Chat
On Posters Professional and Layman As dangerous as cherry-picked quotes are, imposition of anachronistic narratives and categories on history are […]
Can Protestants Be Conservatives?
Laissez-faire and the Theocratic Vision You may have noticed, Protestants are talking about political theology again. It’s a welcome development. […]
Patrial Citizenship
Blood, Soil, and Birthright “The cannon and feudal systems tho’ greatly mutilated in England, are not yet destroy’d. Like the […]
The Protestant Solution
Party, Sect, and Machiavelli’s Transpolitical Problem If you were a Protestant in the seventeenth century, there was at least one […]
Year End Editorial
2025 in Review Here at American Reformer, we want to rebuild American Protestantism—you’ve heard this from us before no doubt—a […]
