What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me
a ‘covenant nation’. Rushdoony didn’t seem to think so. Some Reconstructionists – and non-Reconstructionists – believe it is. The one Religious Right issue I never got into was ‘prayers in…
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Catholic ‘Integralism’ Reminds Me of Protestant ‘Reconstructionism’
…that thirty years ago I was rather involved in something called ‘Christian Reconstructionism’, which was similar in many ways, from a Calvinist point of view. I confess I don’t really…
The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s
…Reconstructionists, R. J. Rushdoony and Gary North. They seemed to have the easy answers that I wanted. So the Christian Reconstruction view dominated my life in my 30s, during which…
Michael Lind: Can You Restrict Immigration Without Alienating Recent Immigrants?
…states, like Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, that had not gone for a Republican presidential candidate since Reconstruction. They resisted putting Catholicism and Judaism alongside Evangelical Protestantism, Liberal Protestantism,…
Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama
…the Civil War. Since the Reconstruction Amendments, including the one of 1868 I mentioned, no President or Congress has dared to defy the Supreme Court, no matter how bizarre the…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…second was my introduction to ‘Reconstructionism’ and my subsequent move beyond it. The third was my exposure to the writings of Francis Fukuyama. As a child, I attended Sunday School…