Religion and politics

FROM VOL. 109 Theologian William Cavanaugh explains how the modern state is a unique kind of political entity, inviting a new kind of idolatry. (26 minutes)

FROM VOL. 101 Theologian William Cavanaugh examines the emptiness of the myth of religious violence. (22 minutes)

Anthony Bradley argues that a recovery of Christian personalism is needed to counter the dehumanization, polarization, and tribalism of our day. (45 minutes)

Andrew Willard Jones calls for the renewal of a robust understanding of the role of the laity in actively shaping the world. (39 minutes)

Andrew Willard Jones challenges some of the conventional paradigms of thinking about political order, arguing that modern assumptions of the relationship between Church and state color how we understand history. (54 minutes

Paul Valliere and Vigen Guroian discuss questions of law, politics, and human nature from the Orthodox tradition. (34 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: David I. Smith, Bruce Hindmarsh, Jason Baxter, John Fea, Laurie Gagne, and Matthew O’Donovan 

FEATURED GUESTS: Jacob Silverman, Carson Holloway, Joseph Atkinson, Greg Peters, Antonio López, and Julian Johnson

FEATURED GUESTS: Carson Holloway, Peter Augustine Lawler, Hadley Arkes, Ben Witherington, III, Christopher Shannon, and Roger Lundin

FEATURED GUESTS: Paul Berman, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Hadley Arkes, Ralph C. Wood, and Jeremy Begbie

FEATURED GUESTS: Ian Dowbiggin, Arthur J. Dyck, Daniel Dreisbach, Michael L. Peterson, Stephen Schwartz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and John Timmerman

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Bruce S. Thornton, A. J. Conyers, Stanton L. Jones, Arthur F. Holmes, Carson Holloway, Ted Prescott, and Glenn Arbery