Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy

Established in 2015, Providence aims to empower the American public to understand and interact with the real world, particularly focusing on how Christianity connects with global issues like American foreign policy. Since its inception, Providence has built a community of knowledgeable writers who can discuss these topics from a perspective rooted in Christian beliefs and American values. Our goal is to introduce a publication that clarifies the Christian realist viewpoint on international matters, a viewpoint that has often been overlooked in discussions about foreign affairs.

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Redux: The Moral Injury of the Cross

6 days ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Moral injury has captured the thought and discourse of thousands around the world. Whether one is a theologian, clinician, ethicist, philosopher, or average citizen, moral injury seems to evoke an inchoate, descriptive connotation of life’s cruel tendency towards dissolution. In academic and professional dialogue, the phrase has generally been located along one of two conceptual axes, connoted by either the nouns betrayal or transgression; however, these two words are not synonymous.
The Holy Week Reader—Friday: Kavod! The Weight of Glory - Providence

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
The Holy Week Reader—Thursday: Go and Do Likewise - Providence

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Today is Maundy Thursday, the day faithful Christians memorialize the several events surrounding Christ’s final Passover meal, which he observed in the company of his closest friends—well, in the company of mostly his closest friends. This evening initiates the Paschal Triduum, the three-day sequence commemorating the passion, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection.
The Holy Week Reader—Wednesday: Volo Ut Sis - Providence

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

On Holy Wednesday, the day prior to the Last Supper, Jesus lodged in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper on the southern slope of the Mount of Olives. While there, a woman, probably Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, anointed Jesus with spikenard—gesturing to and declaring Jesus’ messianic and kingly character. There’s some confusion as to precisely who all the key players are, including the actual identity of the woman and whether Simon and Lazarus are really one and the same.
The Holy Week Reader—Tuesday: Living Faithfully Under Sentence of Death - Providence

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

The events of Holy Tuesday follow directly from Monday’s temple clearing, during which, among much else, Jesus manifest his messianic claims. Questioning his right to do such things, the Pharisees strove to discredit his authority. Holy Tuesday depicts the multiple conspiracies to entangle Jesus, efforts to find him in contempt of legal, theological, or scriptural norms. Jesus dealt deftly with each.
The Holy Week Reader—Monday: A Savior Who Overturns Tables - Providence

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

In its splendor, the second temple in Jerusalem that Jesus would have seen was far more magnificent than the more modest edifice—however miraculous in provenance—constructed by those Jewish exiles whose return to Jerusalem from Babylon is retold in the closing chapters of Second Chronicles and in Ezra and Nehemiah.
A Tale of Two Cities: What the Cross of Christ Did (And Didn’t Do)

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

In addition to Christ’s entry into Jerusalem this Passion Week, there’s reason to believe that at least one other significant procession—that of Pontius Pilate—took place at nearly the same time. Some suggest that Jesus planned his own arrival to correspond directly with Pilate’s.
America Lost & Alone

2 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

This journal is modeled on Christianity & Crisis, which Reinhold Niebuhr founded in 1941 to urge American Protestants to aid the Allies against the Axis. Its theme was that neither morality nor national interest justified continued isolation. That self-imposed isolation was military and economic, including neutrality towards foreign conflicts and high tariffs against foreign products. Niebuhr believed America must both engage and lead. We are at another point in the U. S.
Mutual Disarmament Treaties Are a Losing Game

3 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mike Cote |James Diddams

Donald Trump has proffered many unorthodox ideas in his second term, not least of which was the notion of an arms control summit with Russia and China to massively reduce defense budgets and nuclear stockpiles. In an Oval Office press availability, he said “I want one of the first meetings I have [to be] with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia.
“Like a Western Suit that Doesn’t Fit”: Shūsaku Endō, Christianity, and Japan

3 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Nadya Williams |James Diddams

Is Christianity an exclusively Western faith? In his most famous novel Silence, published in 1966 and adapted by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Japanese Catholic writer Shūsaku Endō (1932-1996) follows the stories of seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries in Japan amid brutal persecution. At the end, the missionaries seem to fall into despair, failing to convert others and even losing faith themselves.