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Brad Littlejohn

4 days

Excited to announce that my forthcoming book Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License is now open for pre-orders! This is the triple-distilled summation of much of my work since 2010.

Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License (Christ in Everything)

www.amazon.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

So a few weeks ago, a copperhead in my backyard bit my son in the ankle. We subsequently spent 48 hrs. in the hospital, and he received eight vials of antivenom. The combined bill? Nearly $275,000. Graciously "discounted" to about $140,000. The US health-care system is broken.

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

The great work is done.

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Conservatives should be dismayed by pro-life's dismal ballot performance, but not surprised. What do you expect to happen after the Right leans hard into the rhetoric of individual autonomy for years? Ppl have now been programmed to pull the lever for more "rights" every time.

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Samuel Alito: "While individuals are certainly free *to think* and *to say* what they wish about 'existence,' 'meaning,' 'the universe,' and 'the mystery of human life,' they are not always free *to act* in accordance with such thoughts. >>

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

I would like to frame this Richard Muller quote in huge letters above the doorway to every Protestant seminary in America:

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Those who really love and care about the disenfranchised white working class, the trailer-park Trumpers, know that love means telling them the truth, not lies, means helping them find ways of reconciliation, rather than nursing resentment, means giving them hope, not rage.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

I haven't been able to resist a few 'I told you so's this year. But now it's time for a mea culpa. For the past year and a half, I've been a bit of a Josh Hawley fan boy. I loved his speeches and shared them with folks. I joked about quitting my job to work on Hawley 2024. >>

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

11 months

Asked our new summer intern if she could help us make a trail map of the Davenant House property. She whipped this up in just four days. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

8 months

Why is it that Paul could tell the Athenians that they were groping toward the true God, even in their idolatry? Why is it that he could tell the Romans that "what can be known of God is plain" to the pagans? Is the same true today? Most evangelicals don't have a good answer.

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Ukraine's heroic resistance is Exhibit A of the virtue of nationalism: the power of bonds of loyalty nurtured by shared culture and language in defense of a shared homeland. A vivid vindication of @yhazony .

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

26 days

Conservatives today face a conundrum: conservatism requires institutions and institutional norms, but so many have now been captured by the Left that conservatives don’t trust institutions and no longer know how to think or act institutionally. We are all Jacobins now. 🧵

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 months

It has been the great honor of my life these past ten years to build this great organization, and a great joy to lay the burden down. The decision was not an easy one, of course, but I have never known a time when I was so borne up by friends, prayers, and God's grace. Farewell!

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

3 months

Today, we announce that after 10 happy years our President, Brad Littlejohn ( @WBLittlejohn ), is moving on. We are also excited to announce that Colin Redemer ( @RedemTheTimes ) has been appointed Executive Director! See our full announcement here.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

>> But this was naive, and I should've known it. Hawley has indeed, as his biggest donor declared yesterday, "revealed himself a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold." I hope his career is over.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

How has Protestant political theology come to this level of ignorance and insanity? It's as if there was literally no world history before, say, 1975. Or, as if whatever history there was was one long Inquisitor's torture chamber.

David French

@DavidAFrench

2 years

Religious supremacy is incompatible with religious liberty. Elevating the power of the state to censor private speech and force speakers on private platforms is incompatible with rights of conscience. Nationalism threatens liberty and justice:

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Every society will punish blasphemy against the Highest Good. A century ago, we punished people for publicly mocking an infinite Creator God. Today, we punish people for publicly mocking the idea of an in-finite, self-creating man—a man able to turn himself into a woman.

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

15 years ago today, I made the best decision of my life and married this stunning N. Dakota farmgirl. Through many trials and triumphs since, she has been a sharpening stone, a rock of support, and quite simply the grace of God to me, refusing to allow me to rest in my follies.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

The final paragraph of my review of @holland_tom 's *Dominion*, just submitted to @AmReformer :

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

4 years

What a joke. It's an appalling scandal when a few people violate social distancing to protest stay-at-home orders, and "inspiring" when 1,000 people cram together shoulder-to-shoulder in a town where the legal limit on gatherings right now is 10?

Rep. Jennifer Wexton

@RepWexton

4 years

It was inspiring to see more than 1,000 Virginians march peacefully today in Leesburg to honor George Floyd and demand change. I’m listening. I’m going to keep showing up. And, as your Congresswoman, I will do everything I can to fight injustice in America.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

(NB: We're fine, by God's grace, because we're members of Samaritan Ministries, and should have nearly the whole bill covered. But not all are so fortunate.)

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

"As Christianity fades into the twilight, Holland tacitly warns, we should not be surprised to find monsters that we thought long since slain again stalking the darkness that lies behind the death of God" I review @holland_tom 's masterpiece at @AmReformer

The Ghost of Christian Past | Bradford Littlejohn

On Tom Holland's Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

americanreformer.org

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

Just received a contract today from @BHAcademic to write a book provisionally titled, *Ordered Liberty: Retrieving the Freedom of a Christian in an Age of License* A great chance to distill into 35,000 words much of the research and reflection I've been doing the past 10 years!

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

>> License to act on the basis of such beliefs may correspond to one of the many understandings of 'liberty,' but it is certainly not ordered liberty." 🔥🔥🔥

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

I'll add Tucker Carlson here as well. Never was a huge fan, but I used to enjoy and plug a lot of his monologues. But he too has revealed himself in the past year as a cynical charlatan who cares nothing for how many lives or laws he destroys with his rhetoric.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

Yesterday I put the finishing touches on the Introduction for this beauty. Should publish early next month. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

More than anything else, Covid has unmasked the extent to which we in the West have lost our sense of *tragedy* as a moral category. Because we're used to humans being in control of everything, any evil must be someone's *fault*. Sometimes though, there are just no good choices.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

9 months

More and more I'm convinced that most Christians preaching "ressourcement" or "retrieval" want to go back to the sources so the sources can do their work for them. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. The sources will often confuse, perplex, and frustrate you. They will answer

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

1 year

For those who’ve been following the Achord controversy, which has major bearing on the broader “Christian nationalism” conversation, @zugzwanged has now presented his case—and it’s compelling indeed. Pray that God uses it to bring truth and repentance.

On Thomas Achord

Thomas Achord is the headmaster of a private classical Christian school, the co-author of the 2021 book Who is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, and is co-host of the Ars Politica pod…

alastairadversaria.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

I am honored and grateful to start this new chapter of my vocation as a Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. I'm thrilled to be working under my friend @RyanTAnd and alongside the whole excellent team of scholars and writers at @EPPCdc !

Ethics and Public Policy Center

@EPPCdc

2 years

The appointment of @WBLittlejohn continues the revitalization of EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, which welcomed Carl Trueman, @andrewtwalk , and EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake in 2021.

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

Important announcement here. Buck totally stops with me on missing this important call earlier in the publication planning process.

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

1 year

The Davenant Institute stands with GAFCON and the African bishops in their fulsome rejection of the CoE's compromise on same-sex unions.

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Brad Littlejohn

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I almost had a conniption when I first read the tagline of this @tlloydcline piece, but he makes an important argument here: what does it mean to be "conservative" when the cultural goods and customs you seek to "conserve" no longer exist?

Lobster or Frog?

Maybe Paine, not Burke, is Right for Our Times

americanreformer.org

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

I set out to discover what this strange beast called "Christian nationalism" was. And I learned that its loudest critics may be the strangest beasts of all.

Who Are the Real Radicals?

The worries about “Christian nationalism” betray an all-too-common disconnect from reality.

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

1 year

Today, @DavenantInst is giving these doormats away as part of its 12/20 donation drive. Maximum Based level unlocked.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

@yhazony Western liberals take note: it's not defense of the "sacred values of democracy" that has Ukrainian mothers staying up all night making Molotov cocktails. It's defense of their people.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Can someone please tell me *what the heck* this term "Christian nationalism" means here? There was nothing either Christian or nationalist about what happened at the Capitol yesterday.

JemarTisby.Substack.com.

@JemarTisby

3 years

Don't miss the religious elements of what's happening at the Capitol. They said, "Critical Race Theory is the biggest threat." What they're showing us is that Christian Nationalism is and has been the biggest threat not only to Christianity in the US but to democracy as well.

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

Last night on his show, he pandered to "the proles," claiming that the elites despise them and only he truly cares about them and their problems. Except at the same time he missed no chance to stoke their anger and resentment. No one does that to someone they truly care about.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

*drumroll* Folks, we have huge news. Can't tell you how pumped I am to be part of making this project happen! Thanks to @RedemTheTimes for the idea, @OUPAcademic for their generosity in the negotiations, and @mattleeanderson for agreeing to write an intro to the new edition.

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

2 years

We are pleased to announce that we have signed a contract with OUP to produce a 2nd edition of Oliver O'Donovan's 1984 masterpiece on reproductive ethics, "Begotten or Made".

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

Absolute humdinger of a speech by @yhazony : Ukraine needs to be a wake-up call for Europe to snap out of its infantilization and take responsibility for its own security, so America can do its job and focus on China. #NatConBrussels

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

9 days

Conservatives are enjoying a moment of moral superiority at the open and violent displays of anti-Semitism on progressive college campuses. But what about the toxic anti-Semitism we've been allowing to brew in our own ranks? My latest for @WNGdotorg :

Policing our own ranks

Brad Littlejohn | Anti-Semitism is not just a problem on the left

wng.org

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

The recent J&J vaccine pause should give us all much *greater* confidence in the safety of Covid vaccines. Indeed, it knocks the #1 weapon out of the anti-vaxxers’ hands: the claim that the gov’t is “covering up” the risks of the vaccines.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

OverthROE Party in full swing here at @DavenantHouse . Our residential fellow, legal scholar Paul Shakeshaft, gave our students a great primer earlier.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

8 months

I'm delighted to share that I have just sent in the final complete manuscript of my book, Called to Freedom: Retrieving the Liberty of a Christian in an Age of License to @BHAcademic !

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

This stuff is really getting exhausting. The formula is the same every time: take a few facts, toss in a few truisms and platitudes, then start fudging definitions, say something about the Founders being secularists, mention racism, and stir vigorously.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

"The disagreement between the two great American traditions can be summed up thus: Hamiltonians are more afraid of the world than of their own government, while Jeffersonians are more afraid of their own government than of the world.--Michael Lind

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

"Democrats believe in the State but not the Nation, while Republicans believe in the Nation but not the State. Neither party unites the two halves of Hamiltonian nationalism into a theory of the strong and integrated American nation-state." --Michael Lind

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

Finally up and worth the wait: the panel discussion between @yhazony , @SohrabAhmari , @DouglasKMurray , and @RubinReport at NatCon II earlier this month. Anyone wanting to hear serious conversation about liberalism and postliberalism should tune in to this:

Dave Rubin, Yoram Hazony, Sohrab Ahmari, and Douglas Murray | Is...

Dave Rubin, Yoram Hazony, Sohrab Ahmari, and Douglas Murray tackle the question of whether an alliance of National Conservatives and Anti-Marxist Liberals is...

www.youtube.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

8 months

The @DavenantInst started, like the classic meme, with someone being wrong on the internet. That someone was me. In honor of our 10th anniversary tomorrow, for the first time I'm sharing the whole crazy story of how God built this amazing ministry.

A Decade of Davenant - Ad Fontes

How our army of friends grew from a blog comments section to a thriving organization

adfontesjournal.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Conservatives used to be empiricists, not dogmatists. It's high time we recover that by learning anew from the Scots who helped create the modern world. My latest at @amconmag :

The Forgotten Genius of the Scots

We might recover a conservative empiricism from the sages of the other Enlightenment.

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

1 year

Brilliant typology here by @johnehrett . Count me unabashedly among the Tweeds.

A Typology of Conservative Protestants in an Anxious Age

In the last couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of intense discussion surrounding Stephen Wolfe’s new book The Case for Christian Nationalism. (I have a [...]

www.patheos.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

7 months

Today, I am proud to unveil Commonwealth, a new project of @DavenantInst dedicated to the renewal of Protestant political theology. In it, we seek to retrieve the sources for our own time, honoring our fathers but also loving our neighbors. My manifesto:

Retrieving Our Common Wealth: A Manifesto - Ad Fontes

Brad Littlejohn introduces Commonwealth, a new wing of Ad Fontes devoted to Protestant political retrieval.

adfontesjournal.com

Ad Fontes

@AdFontesJournal

7 months

Today, Ad Fontes is excited to launch Commonwealth! Commonwealth is a new wing of Ad Fontes, specifically devoted to Protestant political retrieval. @WBLittlejohn offers a manifesto for the project here 🔗🔽🔽🔽

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

@jamesrwoodtheo1 At this point, I honestly don't care what someone thinks about Covid, or masks, or vaccines. It was a tough time, with lots of fog of war and little reason to trust authorities. Lots of different views are understandable. But let's quit using Covid to tear the church apart.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

4 years

Sad that right when world events ( #CoronavirusOutbreak ) are finally offering a ringing vindication of Trump's economic nationalism, the administration is so short-sighted all it can think to do is to ignore and downplay the virus. Huge missed political opportunity here.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Remind me never to move my library again.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

9 months

Wrong. My books are for me, not for the rest of the world. If a future biographer is annoyed by my sloppy annotation after I die, he can write a biography of someone else.

Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

9 months

My principle is always use pencil, never pens or highlighters. Use a rule when underlining (the edge of a bookmark works well) and write neatly if annotating. Think carefully about the end which your underlining is serving, if any.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

An important reminder from @SohrabAhmari that you can oppose a leader's actions without blacklisting an entire people.

These Are a Few of My Favorite (Russian) Things

Standing against an atmosphere of blind hatred, let us honor Russia’s vast contribution to universal civilization.

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

6 months

Unquestionably our most beautiful--and most groundbreaking--publication yet. This has been in process for at least five years; so grateful to @reformedtexan and the editorial team at @DavenantInst for all their labors!

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

6 months

Coming March 25th. @reformedtexan

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

John Jay did more to create and conserve our nation than almost any other Founding Father. Join me next Wednesday to learn about how his remarkable statesmanship can continue to inspire conservatives today!

Foundations of National Conservatism - National Conservatism

National Conservatism, with its commitment to conserving the identities, cultures, and sovereignty of independent nations, is built upon the Anglo-American...

nationalconservatism.org

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

1 year

Exactly. Most of what's being sensationalized as "Christian nationalism" is just "Standard American law through 2/3 of our nation's history"

Jacob Huneycutt

@jacobhtyler

1 year

People who answer “significantly” or “slightly” to this have to reckon with: - Various states had church establishments up through 1833. - Substantial Sabbath laws were commonplace in many places until the early 20th century. - School prayer was widespread until the 1960s.

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Brad Littlejohn

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11 months

From PA's 1780 manumission statute: “It is not for us to enquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an Almighty Hand.”

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Brad Littlejohn

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26 days

What we need, we are told, is courage: the courage to be uncensored, to trust one’s own judgment and charge ahead, heedless of the consequences, and to trash-talk one’s seniors. Earlier generations of conservatives wouldn’t have called this courage: they’d call it “being an ass.”

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

1 year

Perhaps no single man left such a deep stamp upon the American church in the 21st century as Tim Keller. @jamesrwoodtheo1 offers a powerful tribute to Keller's incredible gifts and transforming impact at @AdFontesJournal :

This Article Is About Tim Keller - Ad Fontes

James R. Wood reflects on Tim Keller's impact on his own ministry and the wider church.

adfontesjournal.com

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

A handy guide for the easily-confused: Vatican I: "Everything we said since the Reformation, we totally meant--times infinity." Vatican II: "Everything we said since the Reformation has been totally misunderstood, and we really love modernity and all people everywhere."

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Davenant House is a pretty magical place to live, y'all. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

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26 days

The conservative distrust of government that began six decades ago has expanded into a distrust of governance. But institutions are impossible without governance. Accepting governance means respecting process, not merely results. It means honoring seniority, rather than muttering

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Brad Littlejohn

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26 days

After a nearly four-month effective hiatus from Twitter/X, I've been persuaded by my @EPPCdc colleagues @andrewtwalk and @AaronKheriatyMD to re-enter the hurly-burly digital public square. In the coming weeks you can look for regular commentary from me on the intersection of

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Absolutely masterful piece here by @oren_cass diagnosing the sclerosis of Reagan-era conservatism and offering a powerful prescription for a renewed conservatism for our own time.

A New Conservatism

The circumstances today suggest that a realignment around a multiethnic, working-class conservatism might just have a chance.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

. @zugzwanged fills the house for the first lecture of the recorded video series "An Introduction to Biblical Wisdom" at Davenant House. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

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7 days

Progressive Christians insist that the duty to welcome immigrants is a matter of basic hospitality. Well yes, but hospitality is made possible only by a recognition of limits. For the new issue of @firstthingsmag , I offer a theology of immigration.

Theology of Immigration | Brad Littlejohn

Speaking to a gymnasium full of high schoolers in 2015, Angela Merkel sought to explain why Germany . . . .

www.firstthings.com

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@WBLittlejohn

8 months

Yep, Gerald Bray is now teaching for Davenant Hall. 😎

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

8 months

@WBLittlejohn @mjjhoskin @Protestantongue @zugzwanged @RedemTheTimes Anglican Church History I will be taught by Gerald Bray. It will explore the factors that led to the English Reformation, as well as the ramifications of the Reformation.

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

There's a few hundred books (including my key political theory books in my office) shelved elsewhere in the house, but this is the core collection--2000 of my darlings, all in one beautiful space. May they never have to move again.

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Brad Littlejohn

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2 years

Here comes the spice: "Roe was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided, Casey perpetuated its errors, and those errors do not concern some arcane corner of the law of little importance to the American people. >>

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

Whenever I've been tempted this last year to publicly second-guess the logic of pandemic policies, I've frequently been brought up short by these hard-hitting opening lines of Richard Hooker's *Laws*:

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Brad Littlejohn

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10 months

It was a great honor and privilege to spend last week at @ISI 's Honors College with fellow professors K Habib, @ccpecknold , @PatrickDeneen , @yhazony , @HAHazony , AW Jones, S Byers, S Hanssen, Trueman, Anton, @lsheahan , @DrJayRichards , and B Whalen--and a truly impressive group of

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

Over the past month, 2,000 of my fellow South Carolinians have died of Covid. That's more than cancer and heart disease *combined*, 4x the *annual* burden of the flu, 2x the annual toll from car accidents. All this 6 months after universal vaccine availability. Lord have mercy.

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1 year

@zugzwanged @suzania Through it all, she homeschooled our three oldest kids and managed our youngest hooligan. She did all this with a patience and grace that defies comprehension. I have never felt so fortunate or blessed in the wife that God somehow saw fit to give me fifteen years ago.

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

Over the past eighteen months, and especially in the past few days, I've learned something about the hunger for "retrieval theology" or Protestant ressourcement: a great deal of it is a sham.

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1 year

I always try to resist guilt-by-association and let ideas speak for themselves. And so far, 180pp into @PerfInjust 's book, the ideas are robust and readily resist most of the cheap shots being fired. But if these are the associations, people are not wrong to be alarmed.

Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

1 year

The concern @NeilShenvi raises here really is important. There is a sort of Christian Nationalism that is a sort of identity politics that self-consciously develops itself with CRT as its foil and mirror. This is Stephen Wolfe's podcast cohost, Thomas Achord, on the subject.

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1 year

I never do stuff like this, cuz my wife hates the spotlight, but at some point, even the shyest unsung hero needs a shoutout thread. So here goes.

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

Looks pretty good on a kitchen counter. Will look even better in the hands of the inimitable Carl Trueman tonight. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

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9 days

Got my copy of this beauty yesterday. I'm so grateful to have been part of bringing this gem for the church into the world. @DavenantInst

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

There’s a lot of trolls on Twitter, but I’ve been encountering this sort of claim a lot lately: that I’ve endorsed unquestioning submission to govt Covid overreach. And I think it’s time to say it is a boldfaced lie. It cannot be supported by any honest reading of my writings.

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Brad Littlejohn

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Just submitted the final version of my exposition of "Reformed Natural Law" for the forthcoming @Zondervan "Five Views" book, edited by @andrewtwalk and @RyanTAnd . Glad to have that gorilla off my back for the first time in two years!

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

We are very excited and privileged to announce that thanks to this partnership with Union Theological College, Davenant is now in the Ph.D business.

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

1 year

We are delighted to announce a Ph.D partnership with @UnionTCollege ! Davenant Hall students will now be able to continue their studies at the Ph.D level at Union Theological College, while still being supervised by D. Hall faculty. More on our blog:

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Brad Littlejohn

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The Puritans, as we all know, were great champions for religious liberty. So determined were they to liberate people from bondage to the Prayer Book that in 1645 they passed a statute punishing the use of the BCP in *private family devotions* with up to a year's imprisonment.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Thanks @timkellernyc !

Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

@timkellernyc

3 years

Brad Littlejohn’s short book The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed (only $4 on Kindle right now) is short, good, and clarifying. It steers a middle course between the Radical Two Kingdom view (which doesn’t think distinctively Christian beliefs...

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

When did natural law turn into natural rights? And is that a problem? Join me next term for a deep dive into the formative texts of modern politics: Althusius, Suarez, Grotius, Spinoza, Pufendorf, Thomasius, Vattel, and James Wilson. Minds will be blown.

Natural Law and Natural Rights: 1600-1800 - The Davenant Institute

This is a Davenant Hall Winter Term 2022 philosophy course on natural law and natural rights. 10 week course, 2 hr Zoom per week, from $149.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

26 days

Today, for many on the Right, these paradigmatic institutional virtues are lumped under the moniker of “the longhouse.” To bite one’s tongue, honor disagreement, and build consensus, are taken to be feminine traits, unfitting for the masculine warrior that our dark times demand.

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

@zugzwanged Alastair clearly lays out the stakes: this is not about trying to scuttle the project to recover a Christian politics, but about saving it by drawing very clear lines: we cannot be both Christian nationalists and racial nationalists at the same time.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

@RedemTheTimes @OUPAcademic @mattleeanderson Note that O'Donovan himself will be writing a retrospective essay on the meaning of the work four decades on, and the volume will be available for something in the neighborhood of $20!

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

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I am so honored to be part of the finest thinktank in DC, The Ethics and Public Policy Center. My colleagues have done some extraordinary work over the past year. Check out the summary in the 2023 annual report!

Ryan T. Anderson

@RyanTAnd

11 days

When it comes to education reform, combatting gender ideology, protecting unborn babies, defending religious liberty, preventing bad healthcare regulations, empowering parents on Big Tech, and much, much more, EPPC had great year in 2023. Read about it:

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Brad Littlejohn

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1 year

This is the kind of folly that happens when people get their political theology from 1980s reconstructionist paperbacks off the discount rack, and not from the Reformed tradition.

Toby Sumpter

@TJSumpter

1 year

Yikes. No. This is the kind of folly that conservatives propose in the name of "the common good" that gives me the creeping fantods. This is why Kuyper's sphere sovereignty and old fashioned theonomy are so necessary. God has not established the state/power of the sword to

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Brad Littlejohn

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3 years

@DavenantInst @AdFontesJournal Such renewal is a painful process, one which forces us to face up to our own blind-spots. But this, as C.S. Lewis said, is why we read old books: to "correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period...to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds"

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Brad Littlejohn

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Amazing news here! Carl agreed to serve as a member of Davenant's Board of Advisors when I first founded it and was an invaluable source of encouragement along the way. Excited to see him stepping in to a position of more formal responsibility to guide Davenant going forward!

Davenant Institute

@DavenantInst

17 days

We are excited to announce that Carl Trueman has been appointed to the Davenant Institute Board of Directors! See comments from Dr. Trueman and @profpryor , our Chairman, on our website.

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Brad Littlejohn

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4 years

Whether or not you agree with John MacArthur's decision to defy CA orders and resume public worship, you should NOT agree with the grounds on which he and his elders made that decision, and called on others to join them.

Christ and Caesar: A Response to John MacArthur - The Davenant Institute

Last week, John MacArthur used his immense stature in the evangelical church to call Christians to civil disobedience. WE

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 months

Hooker offers a masterful summary of Chalcedonian Christology: “We may summarize everything antiquity has declared regarding Christian belief and in refutation of these heresies in four words: truly, perfectly, indivisibly, distinctly; the first applied to Christ being God, the

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

@jamesrwoodtheo1 Should pastors actually have to apologize for passing along to their congregations the best information available to them at the time and trying to make responsible decisions in light of it? If so, no wonder so many are giving up on such an impossible profession.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Yesterday, my wife and I said farewell to our beautiful home in Leesburg, VA, where we've spent the happiest two years of our life. We will miss so much and so many, but are so excited about the next adventure the Lord has in store for us in SC.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

6 months

@sefkhet @2D0XPS Yeah, the last time we'd ever want to be reminded that Christ came as the Prince of Peace is when there's an actual war going on. Save the good news for later! 🤨

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

2 years

Pre-orders are now open for the most important book @DavenantInst has yet published: *Protestant Social Teaching* Essays on love, war, and everything in between. Reserve yours today for just $19.99.

Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction

A groundbreaking collection of essays that sets forth a coherent, catholic, biblical set of convictions about what it means to love one's neighbor in both personal and political life.

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Brad Littlejohn

@WBLittlejohn

3 years

Turns out Edmund Burke was neither a free-market zealot nor a die-hard traditionalist. He was, rather, what conservatives should aspire anew to be: a statesman. My review of Gregory Collins's *Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy*

Burkean Economics in the Right-Wing Realignment

Pragmatism learned from experience, a passion for true freedom, and a deep traditionalism make Burke the perfect model for conservative reformers.

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