Trey Dimsdale

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Articles

Reformed Protestantism: The Progenitor of Modern Political Thought

Jan 7, 2025 | providencemag.com | Trey Dimsdale |James Diddams

More than 100 countries and the European Union, accounting for more than half of the world’s population, held elections in 2024. In Europe, the elections resulted in a rightward shift away from globalism toward an emphasis on national sovereignty. And the American election has seen Donald Trump secure a second, non-consecutive term as President and the Republican Party regain control of Congress.
The Complexity of Compassion: A Review of Knox Thames’s Ending Persecution

Nov 10, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Trey Dimsdale

As the world has grown more interconnected, we now have more immediate access to information about the horrors of human rights abuses around the world. A generation ago, most Americans would not know anything about Rohingya Muslims in Burma or the Uyghurs of China, but today we cannot claim ignorance of the state-sponsored genocide that targets these minority groups. This is true of dozens of instances of religious persecution around the world that are, unfortunately, present on every continent.
“Conclave,” While Ham-Fisted, Inspires Some Thoughtful Reflections on Catholicism

Oct 29, 2024 | providencemag.com | Trey Dimsdale

When I texted a Roman Catholic friend this month to say that a friend had been elected an Anglican bishop, she responded, “Where do you know him (or her…just kidding) from?” Regarding the wider Anglican world such a question is not merely a good-natured barb, but a reasonable inquiry given the state of the Anglican Communion. Every Christian tradition has set itself up in some way to be the punchline of a joke, the subject of satire, or even an object of contempt.
Shepherds on the Titanic

Oct 8, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Trey Dimsdale

Basham has named names and provided copious footnotes detailing public comments, tweets (or now “posts”), and other bits of the record. She goes after powerful and popular figures like Tim Keller, J.D. Greear, and Rick Warren. I really have no reason to believe, however, that any of it is done in bad faith, despite accusations to the contrary.
Shepherds on the Titanic

Sep 18, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Trey Dimsdale

In the introduction to Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis uses the image of a hall leading to various rooms to explain the relationship of the various Christian communions and traditions with one another and with the fundamental and indispensable commitments that define the contours of Christianity. The hall, according to Lewis, is the entryway to the faith defined by the ecumenical creeds. The rooms astride the hall represent the Anglicans, the Roman Catholics, and the Methodists.
Randy E. Barnett: A Principled Commitment to the Truth

Aug 29, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Trey Dimsdale

The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the New York Times for more than 40 years. Over the course of their careers, Judge Silberman and others noted that conservative justices tended to move to the left of the Court.
Rising Individualism, Declining Western Civilization

Aug 27, 2024 | providencemag.com | Trey Dimsdale

In the final episode of The Office, the Cornell-educated salesman Andy Bernard pensively observed, “I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.” Danny Kruger’s 2023 book Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood, and Nation, concisely explains Britain’s slow passage from the “good old days” to the chaos and disarray of the present.
European Discontent: Immigration and National Identity

Aug 21, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Trey Dimsdale

Recently, I toured a notable American cathedral that, as a parish, had been founded by pre–Revolutionary War French immigrants. When our group came to a panel that included images of four martyrs who had evangelized different European peoples, our docent told us the story of St. Denis, who took Christianity to the French in the third century.
Is It Now Illegal to Be Homeless?

Jul 31, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Trey Dimsdale

According to several headlines, the Supreme Court has “criminalized homelessness” in a decision handed down in the last days of the Spring 2024 term. Others go even further. Not only has homelessness been criminalized, but poverty, too, apparently. City of Grants Pass v.
Why Overturning Chevron Didn’t Fix the Problem…Entirely

Jul 10, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Trey Dimsdale

Every year, millions of American families with college students complete a government form known as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The application is administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which processes the form and produces a report that is then sent to colleges and universities. The report often dictates the amount and type of financial aid—both public and private—that college students may be entitled to receive.