Blog God’s General Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
Blog Suffering, Providence, and Robert Lewis Dabney In his 1903 book, The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, Thomas Cary Johnson…Miles FoltermannJanuary 27, 2022
Blog “A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends”: Providence and the American War of 1861-1865 “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
Blog Southern Hospitality in Asia Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
Review Posts Social Justice is Our New Religion A review of Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict (Reformation Zion Publishing, 2021) by…Darrell DowNovember 9, 2021
Review Posts Our Comfort in Dying A review of Our Comfort in Dying (Sola Fide Publications, 2021), R. L. Dabney and…Forrest L. MarionAugust 24, 2021
Blog What It Means to be a Southerner Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
Blog The True Cause of the War Between the States I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2021
Blog The 19th Century Roots of Black Liberation Theology and Critical Race Theory While Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation Theology are 20th century creations, the cultural and…James (Jim) PedersonMay 26, 2021
Blog Southern Orthodoxy A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee: The Believer In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
Blog Hillbilly Thomists What would you give in exchange for your soul? Bluegrass greats Bill Monroe and Doc…Casey ChalkFebruary 8, 2021
Review Posts James Henley Thornwell and the Metaphysical Confederacy A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values…Zachary GarrisDecember 8, 2020
Blog The Southern (Catholic) Tradition When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond,…Casey ChalkOctober 28, 2020
Blog The Colored Sacred Harp I have written here before about the history and mechanics of Sacred Harp singing, shape-notes,…Tom DanielJuly 29, 2020
Blog How Secession and War Divided American Presbyterianism Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland…Zachary GarrisMay 12, 2020
Blog Plodding Through the “ills of life” Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful…Forrest L. MarionApril 29, 2020
Blog A Forgotten Spiritual Hero Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the…Karen StokesMarch 11, 2020
Blog Not Just Whistling Dixie There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
Blog What Religious Statistics Can Tell Us About The War Between the States The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by…James (Jim) PedersonNovember 22, 2019
Review Posts “Deplorable” 19th-Century American Catholics and the 21st-Century Culture War A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn…Jerry SalyerOctober 1, 2019
Blog The Revolt Against Christian Civilization: The Southern View Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their…Boyd CatheySeptember 9, 2019
Blog Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Fundamentalism is…John DevannyAugust 14, 2019
Review Posts Dabney on Fire A review of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government (2019)…Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2019
Blog Was Dabney a Prophet? The writings of Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) often read like prophecy. After the War Between…Zachary GarrisJune 19, 2019
Blog Dignity and Peace Catholic and non-Catholic Southerners alike have reason to mourn the loss of Father James Schall,…Jerry SalyerMay 30, 2019
Blog Guerilla War from the Pulpit Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry was one of the major political figures of the Old South.…John ChodesMay 6, 2019
Review Posts A Tale of Two Churches A Review of Sacred Conviction: The South’s Stand for Biblical Authority (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…Garrett AgajanianApril 23, 2019
Blog Is Opposition to Trump “Satanic?” On a February 2017 episode of televangelist Pat Robertson’s “The 700 club,” a viewer sent…Michael MartinMarch 8, 2019
Review Posts Catholics’ Lost Cause A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…John DevannyJanuary 15, 2019
Blog History and Social Justice Activism I recently traveled with ten undergraduate students to the Conference on Faith and History (CFH)…Samuel C. SmithNovember 8, 2018
Blog The “Desert Blooming Like The Rose.” In 21st–century America, it’s difficult to imagine life without the ability to access information at…Forrest L. MarionOctober 26, 2018
Blog The Ministry of ‘Ordinary Means’ and the Kentucky Revivals of 1828 In his important 1994 work, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism,…Forrest L. MarionJuly 6, 2018
Blog Southern Identity in the 21st Century What exactly does it mean to be a Southerner in the 21st Century? Is it…Lewis LibermanMay 14, 2018
Blog When Historians Lie Eminent historian Dr. Clyde Wilson in one of his many books on American history expresses…Jonathan HarrisApril 11, 2018
Blog Sacred Harp Singing If I was forced to give an example of at least one good thing we…Tom DanielMarch 12, 2018
Blog “No Other Gods Before Me.” From its port side northern Kentucky’s foremost tourist attraction looks exactly like a real vessel,…Jerry SalyerNovember 30, 2017
Blog The Antebellum South in the Reformation Tradition On October 31, while many parents whisk their little ones from house to house in…Jonathan HarrisOctober 30, 2017
Blog Madisonian Liberal In 2015, Todd Horwitz posted an article on on the Ron Paul-sponsored website Voices of…Joe WolvertonSeptember 14, 2017
Blog The Timely Wisdom of Robert Lewis Dabney Many of the destructive ideas and “isms” of our century in America had their roots…Karen StokesMarch 13, 2017
Review Posts God, Gallup, and the Episcopalians The rejection of the old Prayer Book was something like the demolition of a historic…Cleanth BrooksMarch 7, 2017
Blog A Southern Saint William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
Blog Ortho Dixie: Orthodox Christianity and Southern Identity Anyone who has grown up in the melting pot of immigrant religiosity of the industrial…Stephen BorthwickOctober 20, 2016
Review Posts Truth in the Pit of Political Correctness Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
Blog Jefferson’s True Wall of Separation The United States Constitution does not contain the words “separation of church and state,” nor…Dave BennerAugust 12, 2016
Blog Southern Baptists and the Flag It appears that the abstractions of the Enlightenment have over the last five-hundred years been…Robert M. PetersJuly 15, 2016
Blog More Secession Theology: Thomas Smyth of Charleston Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
Review Posts Is Pluralism Enough? Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For…Walt GarlingtonJune 21, 2016
Review Posts The Theology of Secession At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
Blog A Rural Southern Easter Benjamin Franklin White, born 1800 in South Carolina, was a Southern music pioneer. His collection…Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2016
Review Posts The Destruction of Old Sheldon Church and Other Ravages of War From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
Review Posts Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Southern Irish Catholic Planter A slightly different version of this essay is Chapter Eleven in Brion McClanahan, The Politically…Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2016
Review Posts Defending the Southern Tradition History is a liberal art and one profits by studying the whole of it, including…Richard M. WeaverNovember 26, 2015
Review Posts Promoting Christian Sabbath or Lord’s Day Observance in South Carolina, 1827-1837 In the eighteenth century, each of the British North American colonies that later formed the…Forrest L. MarionSeptember 8, 2015
Blog Why Yankees Won’t (And Can’t) Leave the South Alone This essay was first published in Southern Partisan in the Winter, 1985. Southerners rarely while…Forrest McDonaldAugust 6, 2015
Review Posts James Henley Thornwell and Southern Religion The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during…Eugene GenoveseMay 5, 2015
Review Posts Politics and Patriotism These are challenging times for the Christian patriot, as evidenced by controversies over recent renditions…Marshall DeRosaApril 28, 2015
Review Posts Does the Just War Tradition Need Selective Conscientious Objection? INTRODUCTION It is dangerous to attempt an article on a topic so relevant and current.…Jacob ShatzerApril 21, 2015
Review Posts An Upper South Perspective on the Christian Sabbath and Civil Liberty, 1825-1837 Among the various moral reform and benevolence movements in the Jacksonian Era such as temperance,…Forrest L. MarionNovember 27, 2014
Blog The Men Who Destroyed Western Civilization Whatever happened to Western civilization? Somehow, Christians have lost ground in every cultural area of…Valerie ProtopapasNovember 25, 2014
Review Posts The Real Old Time Religion People in the South who are intuitively attuned to its culture and history suspect that…A. J. ConyersOctober 20, 2014
Blog Radical America "The very axioms of American politics now are, that "all men are by nature equal,"…Robert Lewis DabneyJuly 30, 2014
Blog The “Fighting Bishop” of Louisiana Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806, the son and grandson of…Roger BusbiceMay 6, 2014
Blog Jackson and Ewell General Richard S. Ewell had a reputation for being a heavy drinker, foul mouthed, and…Carl JonesApril 8, 2014
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