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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…