Mark David Hall
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Author of "Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism?: Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church." (April 2024)
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Can you imagine what critics of Christian nationalism would make of this image if Donald Trump signed the letter on the right?
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Take 3: "Christian Nationalism is the view that a country was founded as a Christian nation, that it should protect and promote Christianity in special ways, and that God will bless the nation if it remains faithful to Him."
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The recent edition of Christianity Today has an editorial suggesting that Christians might want to "sit out the fight for tax exempt status" for churches. Immediately after that suggestion, readers are invited to give a tax-deductible donations to CT, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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I'm honored that Regent University, my new academic home, asked me to give this year's Constitution Day address.
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Excited to see this on Amazon:
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John Wilsey and I need a good definition of Christian Nationalism for our book on the subject. Here is our first attempt: "Christian Nationalism is the view that God specially favors one nation and will bless that nation if it remains faithful to Him." Thoughts?
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Agreed. My copy arrived yesterday and it took me about an hour and a half to read (I'm a slow reader). It is a sloppy, silly book. The only parts that aren't silly are those that discuss truths that should be obvious to any orthodox Christian.
Guys, this book isn’t just bad, it’s bad at being bad. What is this, like 16 pt font? At 132 pp, it’s essentially a glorified pamphlet. Opened up to a random page and found a typo. What a brilliant scam.
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Was the War for American Independence a biblical and just war? Most Christian scholars who have addressed this question contend that it wasn't, but I argue in my new book that it was. If you order it today, you can be among the first to read it.
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I'm a little disappointed that fans of the 1619 Project have not attacked me for this little essay. Come on, let's have a debate!
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I'm thrilled to be going to the University of Louisville to give talks about my forthcoming book AND the so-called threat of Christian nationalism. Many thanks to my good friend Gary Gregg for arranging them.
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I had the opportunity to lead the John Jay Fellows in a discussion of my Christian founding book at ISI's new Linda L. Bean Center. What a great group!
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If we make it to April 11 without any fiery explosions, can we finally repeal this stupid, expensive law?
Oregon temporarily lifts prohibition on self-service gas in response to coronavirus
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I'm reading Paul Blanshard's anti-Catholic polemic "American Freedom and Catholic Power." Among other complaints, he takes the Church to task for opposing the "eugenic sterilization" of certain persons. This is in the revised edition published in 1958.
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How The Bible Inspired The American Founding From The Beginning
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"The Sacred Rights of Conscience" is one of the best books I have ever worked on. It is the size of a phonebook (for those of you old enough to know what one of these is), and it can be purchased for $9.99 with free shipping if you have Amazon Prime.
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1/2 Disestablishment, yes, wall, no. Madison voted to pay Confederation Congress chaplains, served on the committee that selected two chaplains for the First Federal Congress, and he issued four calls for prayer as president.
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In this excellent book, Miles Smith demonstrates that America was a Christian nation from 1789 to at least 1860. He does so in a manner that will be persuasive to scholars and yet accessible to the general reading public. . . .
Pre-orders are now open for
@IVMiles
's new book "Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War."
Foreword by
@RevKevDeYoung
Pre-order for $32.25!
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Interesting news: I've been appointed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to a four year term on its Oregon Advisory Committee. I think they were looking for some diversity and lacked liberty-friendly Burkean conservatives. Should be fun!
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To literally everyone and anyone, which evangelical has ever said CN can save the world, or even a nation, in any possible sense??? Specifics would be appreciated.
Christian Nationalism Cannot Save the World via
@CTMagazine
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"Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans were a religious people. The Founders were markedly less so."
"religion was to be perfectly free as long as it was perfectly private--mere belief."
Very disappointing observations from George Will.
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I read the majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County carefully, and it was not as bad as I thought it would be, but Alito has me at "There is only one word for what the Court has done today: legislation."
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Thanks for the kind words. I love Liberty Fund Press! What other press would publish a phone book size compilation of primary sources and sell it for $15?
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I hereby announce that I am severing my relationship with the Blazers. When the NBA starts supporting liberal democracies rather than authoritarian regimes, I'll reconsider my position.
Portland Trail Blazers Join Boycott Against Israel
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My hot take: too many Americans have seen sonograms, and they know that an unborn child is a child. 30% of citizens will remain committed to Roe as a matter of ideology, but the rest know that it was a horrendous decision.
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If Roe is overturned, the issue of abortion will be returned to the state legislatures where democratically elected representatives and senators will vote on what the state laws will be. How is this result at odds with democracy?
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There is no possible manifestation of Christian nationalism that is a good thing. Can we be done with the notion?
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Perhaps, Regent, Hillsdale, and George Fox?
Parents of current and future college students should be asking themselves, "Wait, are there schools where these nutty protests for Hamas aren't happening at all?" Answer: Yes. You won't see videos of the schools, but they're the ones you should be considering for your kids.
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I love this, but I fear it may make the book I'm writing on American Christian nationalism obsolete. Parody really is more effective than rational argument. Oh well.
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Locke's influence on America's founders is vastly overstated, and when Americans read him they understood him to be a thinker whose ideas were compatible with their Christian convictions. They may have misread him, but that is a different debate.
In light of recent discussions, just a reminder that Locke was a hedonist and voluntarist, and this is no way to philosophically ground morality or politics. (And, a reminder that America does not equal Locke.)
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"The notion that human rights are a creation of God, not of humans, is a core belief of Christian nationalism."
--Jeffrey Haynes
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
--TJ
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Two nice Christmas books from my daughter who works at Eerdmans. She helped design the biography of Campbell.
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1. Among the silliest claims made by critics of Christian nationalism is that the Religious Right was formed mostly to protect white segregation academies. No critic does his own work, they all rely on a disgruntled historian named Randall Balmer.
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How can the words "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," be read as anything other than a restriction on government, not the church?
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Are you accusing me of idolatry? Could you please point out a single passage in my book (or the dozen academic books upon this one is based) that is idolatrous?
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The sad thing is, I'll feel obligated to watch this so I can later rebut the polemical nonsense that is sure to come from at least half of the presenters. It is sort of like watching a Biden State of the Union Address.
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Happy Thanksgiving! If you like this holiday and/or America's grand experiment in self-government, thank a Calvinist.
How Reformed Theologians' Commitment To Self-Rule Shaped America
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"It presents itself as a blinking, blaring, screaming sign that reads “Republicans: Trump is your problem.”"
Can we finally be done with Trump?
The Message of the Midterms
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Your book is endorsed by Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry (separately), so we can associate your book with theirs? Just asking for a friend.
The National Conservatism website is prominently featuring "The Case for Christian Nationalism" on its homepage. So I guess it's fair game to associate that book's argument with the national conservatism movement more broadly.
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If only there was a book on his political and legal philosophy...
@RandyEBarnett
And James Wilson was easily one of the foremost affirmers of natural law among the Founders.
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The Ali-Frazier "match of the century" was o.k., but the Hall-Frazer match will be even better. If you live in the L.A. area, you should come see it!
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In "Did America Have a Christian Founding?," I briefly addressed the question of whether the war for American Independence was biblical and just. I had to cut it for reasons of space, but will provide a full chapter on the question in the sequel.
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George Will, in "Conservative Sensibility" claims that Madison refused to issue calls for prayer as president (467-68). In fact, he issued four of them. He later questioned their constitutionality in a document not published in his lifetime, but...
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I'm not superstitious, but the penultimate proofs for "Did America Have a Christian Founding" are due today, so I finished them up at The Eagle and Child in Oxford. If my book sells 10% of the number of sales made by some authors who met there, I'll be happy.
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I'm pleased to participate in this symposium on Stephen Wolfe's "Case for Christian Nationalism." My essay is on Wed., but you should read all of them.
Christian Nationalism, Whence and Whither? | Ben C. Dunson I'
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The white protestors know what is necessary to help African-Americans more than the African-American who is trying to go to work. White privilege?
White protesters scream at and prevent a black man from going to work because they're trying to protest the death of a black man (Jordan Neely).
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"a deist conception of God, of the sort that . . . most of the Founding Fathers believed in."
I like Haidt's work, but he is simply wrong here. The was maybe one deist among America's founders.
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My reply is related: "The phrase Christian Nationalist was almost solely a slur used by critics from 2006 until 2022 when a few imprudent people embraced the label. There is no good reason for prudent Christians to do so."
Possible replies to “Are you a … Christian Nationalist?”
“Are you a pagan globalist? Just wondering.”
“That’s a hate-mongering dog-whistle, like Josef Goebbels’ made-up slur ‘Judeo-Bolshevik.’ Would you ask a Jewish person if he were one of those?”
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Miriam and I will be at Princeton for the next academic year. We are thrilled!
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I'm in a bright mall with thumping music waiting for my wife and daughter to find a formal dress. To entertain myself I brought papers to grade. This may not have been my best plan ever.
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From a book by an academic that I just began: "...French philosopher John Locke was developing theories that would later influence all of America's Founding Fathers." I'm not optimistic.
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Today marks the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact if we use New Style dates. To learn more see:
1619 or 1620?
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I'm very excited to have a chance to speak about a chapter from my forthcoming book at George Mason University on Nov. 5. I understand the general public is invited, but please RSVP with the organizers.
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The release date isn't until Oct. 29, but I received copies of "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" this morning. Nelson books did a wonderful job, the books are beautiful!
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@ndrewwhitehead
Andrew, you are a Christian who argues that being pro-life is about controlling women's bodies and who believes any conception of religious liberty beyond freedom of worship is bigotry. "Suppress" is too strong, but "shaming" into not voting R is not.
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2022-2023 will be a year of visiting for me. I'll be a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University and a non-residential visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center. Fun times!
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Check out the University of Notre Dame Press's new catalogue for more information about "America and the Just War Tradition." We are pleased to have advanced praise for the book from Harry S. Stout and James Turner Johnson.
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Steven Green of Willamette University and I had a friendly debate last night on the question "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" Thanks to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute for sponsoring it!
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Rushdoony as the father of contemporary Christian nationalism is among my favorite claims made by the polemical critics of Christian nationalism. That Rushdoony was a localist, not a nationalist, doesn't seem to bother them.
@somniloquybbles
Interestingly (and I’d argue inaccurately), Stewart, Ingersoll, & Goldberg connected the origins of CN to CR.
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On the other hand, if two sociologists claim that 52% of Americans are Ambassadors or Accommodators but you've only met a handful in your life despite running in evangelical circles, perhaps the sociologists' measures are off? Or are we not to question sociologists anymore?
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Agreed!
Relatedly, the American founder Roger Sherman said that if we allow the direct election of senators we might as well kiss federalism goodby. He was a wise man.
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Here is my review of an excellent book that should be read by every student of religious liberty/church-state relations in early America. Well done professors Esbeck and
@JDenHartog1776
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A recent interview about "Did America Have a Christian Founding?"
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Patriotism is the proper love of country; nationalism is the inordinate love of country. One should not reject patriotism because some people misunderstand or misuse the concept.
some reasons I strongly dislike patriotism; 1). because it's difficult for me to discern any value in it and 2). it is for all intents and purposes nationalism.
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According to Chris Hedges, author of "American Fascists," Justice Antonin Scalia was greatly influenced by Rousas Rushdoony's Dominionist ideology. Authors of polemics believe they have a license to simply make things up, but shouldn't their claims be somewhat plausible?
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Frank Beckwith is absolutely right. America's founders understood a major role of local governments (in our constitutional order) to be the promotion of the common good and human flourishing.
Not Your Daddy’s Classical Liberalism
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I'm off to Indianapolis tomorrow for a Liberty Fund colloquium on Roger Sherman. Should be a great time!
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My review of Paul Miller's recent book on American Christian nationalism.
Christian Nationalism: An Existential Threat?
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I am grateful to the Robertson School of Government, Regent Law School, and Regent's Honors Program for co-hosting a book launch event for me.
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I was pleased to discuss "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" on CrossPolitic. My interview begins at about minute 39.
@SamaritanMin
discusses
#coronavirus
with us and
@MDH_GFU
joins us to discuss the Christian founding of America!
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In a collection of excellent books, one is an outlier. . .
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I'm very much looking forward to reviewing this book. The cover features one of the Quaker Edward Hick's famous paintings "The Peaceable Kingdom," which is perhaps why the journal chose a professor at a Quaker school to review it.
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I'm waiting for my progressive evangelical friends to condemn Biden's Christian nationalism. I suspect I'll be waiting a while.
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It was great seeing my friend Brad Birzer at Princeton today. He gave an excellent talk!
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"Religious liberty is the fruit of Christianity, not the Enlightenment or later secular thought..." Amen!
A good review of a good book!
A Christian Case for Religious Liberty - Law & Liberty
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I've sent out an image of this before, but yesterday I got to hold the final product in my hands. Well done, ND. Daryl Charles will be in the PNW next week for three book release events. Stay tuned.
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I'm not sure that protecting the ability of Catholic schools to hire the teachers they desire and not forcing nuns to buy birth control, to reference just two recent cases, constitutes "religious zealots imposing their will" on majorities . . .
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@JeremyTate41
Reading about JQ Adams's education as a young dad convinced me that we had to get a classical education for our three children. (We desired a Christian education for them as well, but not because of JQA).
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The Constitution does not require the Catholic Church to to administer sacraments to members who flout the church's teaching. Where did these folks study constitutional law?
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The official publication date of "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" is exactly a month away. Seventeen men and women were kind enough to write endorsements for it. Over the next month, I'll post an excerpt from each every other day or so.
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If you like American independence, thank a Calvinist:
Calvinism and American Independence via
@CatoUnbound
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John Wilsey and I are about to start facilitating a student colloquium on Christian nationalism at beautiful Southern Baptist Theological Seminar. Good times!
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Bill McClay gave an excellent talk entitled “The Centrality of the Constitution in the Civic Education of Americans" at George Fox University tonight. Thanks to the Jack Miller Center for sponsoring it.
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I am very disappointed that even the good folks at the American Enterprise Institute are buying into polemical claims about white Christian nationalism.
"Jesus and John Wayne is an expansive synthesis of how a fusion of politics, religion, and popular culture over seventy-five years has driven many in the Evangelical movement to embrace a militant White Christian nationalism."
Jesus and John Wayne
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An excellent review that mirrors my own thoughts on Du Mez's book.
Reading <i>Jesus and John Wayne</i> While Evangelical
@hunterbaker
via
@PublicDiscourse
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I just received formal word that I get to take a sabbatical next year. Major project: finish my book on religious accommodations.
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I had a chance to discuss "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" with Glenn Beck today. Someone said he looks impressed in this picture, but I'm afraid it is more "why did I invite a college professor to be on my show?" Thoughts?
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Best book yet on American Christian nationalism (and perhaps German and French as well).
Europe's Post-Religious Right
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It was my great pleasure to give the keynote address for Liberty University's research week on Monday. I spoke on, what else, "Did America Have a Christian Founding?"
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My take on Christian Nationalism:
Tilting at Windmills: The Threat of Christian Nationalism
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