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Aug 7, 2024 | 
christianscholars.com | Richard J. Mouw
One of my courses in seminary—a half-century ago!—had a lasting impact on my thinking. It was about world religions, and especially helpful for me was an assigned text, Christian Faith and Other Faiths, by Stephen Neill, then a bishop in the Church of South India. In presenting the Gospel to a person from another religious perspective, Neill wrote, we should invite the person to take an honest look at the Jesus of the New Testament.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
ttf.org | Richard J. Mouw
The topic of Christian nationalism takes us into deep questions of how we understand and live out our allegiances to both our country and the kingdom of God, how we ought to relate to our neighbors, and how we should pursue justice and flourishing within our nation. It’s also a topic rife with confusion and uncertainty. But what is Christian nationalism, and how is it different from a robust patriotism? On our podcast we explore these questions with scholars and authors Richard Mouw and Paul D.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
commongoodmag.com | Richard J. Mouw
"I don't know how to get the folks on those opposite ends of that spectrum to listen to each other. But I take comfort in the fact that they do represent extreme ends of a spectrum and that there is considerable room between the extremes.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Richard J. Mouw
A liberal acquaintance told me recently that while he generally dislikes evangelicals, he doesn't find me to be as bad as the rest: "At least you don't rant about wanting to establish a theocracy!" I decided to accept what he said as a compliment, even though I regretted not coming clean with him about theocracy. Truth be told, my wife and I do belong to a pro-theocracy organization. Indeed, we attend its meetings every week.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
christianscholars.com | Richard J. Mouw |Matthew Martens
Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal. Foreword by Derwin L. GrayPublished by Crossway in 416 pp / $34.99 / 9781433581823 Matthew Martens is convinced that the United States criminal justice system desperately needs reform. While he is eager to have his fellow evangelicals contribute to “meaningful dialogue and charting a way forward” in that task (2), he sees two obstacles that keep that from happening.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
christianscholars.com | Richard J. Mouw
We are pleased to publish the text of the 24th Paul B. Henry Lecture, delivered at Calvin University on April 4, 2023. The annual lecture is sponsored by the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, located at Calvin University. The lecture and the institute are named in honor of Paul B. Henry, who after teaching for eight years in the political science department of Calvin, beginning in 1970, went into electoral politics.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Richard J. Mouw
The Timeless Truths series was inspired by a passage from C. S. Lewis’s 1954 inaugural lecture from the Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. “One thing I know,” he reflects, “I would give a great deal to hear any ancient Athenian . . . talking about Greek tragedy.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
christianscholars.com | Richard J. Mouw
We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee was a self-identified agnostic, and the topic was the rights of academic institutions to “discriminate” on the basis of religious beliefs. My dialogue partner was not overtly hostile to religion as such. Indeed he said some nice things about the school where I was president at the time. Fuller Seminary produces some excellent scholarship based on our religious convictions, he observed.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
livingchurch.org | Richard J. Mouw
Review by W.L. Prehn
Richard Mouw of Calvin University speaks for many of us when he laments the deep political divisions between Americans and the increasingly public disagreements over politics and public policy, among committed Christians especially. As we begin another presidential election year, and one likely to be as divisive as any in American history, Mouw’s book is a practical ministry to us all. What is the correct way for Christians to be patriotic?
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
christianscholars.com | Richard J. Mouw
The October 2000 issue of The Atlantic featured a lengthy article by the Boston College sociologist Alan Wolfe on “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind.” Wolfe’s portrayal of evangelicalism’s intellectual contributions came as a word of encouragement to many of us who had heeded the warnings that Mark Noll had issued six years earlier in his now-classic The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
