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Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. This is superlatively true for Christians, as they live consciously and conscientiously in two kingdoms, one earthy and the other heavenly, serving a divine king and, under him, also an earthly one. The kingdom of God directs our sights to the universal relationship in Christ while leaving us separately embodied in particular families and communities—the one does not supplant these others—which both require and merit devotion and self-sacrifice. This tension between love of one’s own and the uniquely Christian universal love can be seen in the currently employed and contentiously scrutinized term Christian nationalism. Though seemingly an oxymoron, it recognizes and makes sense of the necessary coincidence of our inescapable particularity with our participation in and dependence on larger realities.

Supporters of the alleged murderer of health-care CEO Brian Thompson applauded his choice of target.

Many Christian leaders have noticed something happening in their churches and in the wider culture: Christianity is becoming popular

The call to retake the Panama Canal is a sign of a new emergent order.

GDP expanded in third quarter as long-running crisis begins to ease

This is my second Christmas as a Christian. As an atheist, I had dismissed the bright lights and customs of Christmas as traditions that had evolved to keep our spirits up as the cold of winter creeps in. But the more I learn about, and participate in, the rituals of my adopted faith, the less

A Review of Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin

In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, Romania’s constitutional court announced last week the annulment of the results of the first round of the presidential elections held on Nov. 24.

By moving federal agencies out of D.C., Donald Trump can put the government back in touch with the people it serves while spreading federal dollars more equally, to places that need them

A climate nonprofit run by former Chinese Communist Party officials funneled millions of dollars to U.S. universities and left-wing groups to promote replacing fossil fuels with green energy, tax forms reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The rise of a Turkish-led order is a historic development in a region beset with perpetual chaos, and marks the end of four hundred years of European influence.

While nobody was looking, the Syrian regime was increasingly hollowing out.

Here comes the British realignment

One doctor has murdered more than 430 patients — not counting unborn babies. She is still practicing this twisted ‘medicine.’

The Republican Party now has the support of working class voters. However, recent history shows these voters will abandon it quickly if not heard.

How to eliminate left-wing racialism from the federal government

Americans should resist feminist appeals and reassert the principle that war is, and always has been, a burden for men alone to bear.

Although Germany is waking up to the China challenge, it still struggles to respond. The watchword is business as usual.

The best way to promote fertility isn’t subsidizing parenthood. It’s stopping the programs that discourage people from having babies.

Syria, like Iraq, allowed itself to become a tool of Iran, and therefore never developed a competent state.

After four years of inflation, crime, war, border crisis, abuses of power, and censorship, American women finally stood up to vicious, bullying thugs.

Reviving a public Christianity in those parts of the country that are not yet entirely lost is the only plausible alternative to America’s continued decay into a brutal neo-Marxist tyranny. Jews who wish to avoid this calamity should seek an alliance with nationalist and conservative Protestants and

Bridget Phetasy on why so many former Democrats switched sides in the US election.

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.

Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday celebrated the opening of a new port that his state-owned shipping company Cosco has built in the Peruvian fishing village of Chancay.
The opening of the port