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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Helping Israel against Iran?

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

Should the U.S. directly assist Israel’s destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program? The short answer is, to my mind, as a Christian realist, yes, but not with unqualified enthusiasm. Christian Realism never embraces war enthusiastically, only from grim necessity, hopefully without illusions, knowing that even success brings more problems, and likely tragedies.
Generous America?

2 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

When General Douglas MacArthur argued in 1950 during the Korean War against skeptical military chiefs for his landing at Inchon, he declared: “I cannot believe that a great nation such as the United States cannot give me these few paltry reinforcements for which I ask.” MacArthur knew of America’s nearly inexhaustible resources that can be harnessed to nearly any great purpose, if there is the will. The vast reduction if not virtual closure of U.S. foreign aid detracts from American greatness.
Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb Was Smart, Not Reckless

3 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

In a stunning operation, on June 1, 2025, the Ukrainian SBU Security Service carried out Operation Spiderweb. The operation included a large-scale coordinated drone strike on five Russian air bases: Belaya, Dyagilevo, Ivanovo Severny, Olenya, and Ukrainka stretching more than 2,000 miles into Russian territory and miles from one another.
Where Will Leo XIV Stand on War?

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

The obituary superlatives helped tell the tale of the late Pontiff. A search of the most common words or themes used to describe Pope Francis testifies to a “pontificate of the heart” characterized by “personal warmth,” “mercy,” “fraternity,” “humility,” “compassion,” and an emphasis on “inclusion,” the suspension of judgment, and peace. These characteristics often served his mission well.
Ignoring America’s Greatest Victory?

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies, but America is hardly commemorating its greatest victory. Why? Nazi Germany was the greatest scourge in modern American history. It successfully conquered or subdued nearly all Europe, murdered many millions, and planned to murder tens of millions more. Its ideology, which seduced and intimidated tens of millions, was passionate, hypnotic, and demonic.
Victory is Rooted in Virtue

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Eighty years ago, as news of Germany’s surrender spread, good people throughout Europe and the wider world flowed into the streets and open places to celebrate the end of Nazism and Hitler’s fever dream of blood and soil nationalism. To be sure, there was still much fighting to be done in the Asia-Pacific—though, happily, it would prove to be much less fighting than expected. True, also, a full accounting of the horrors of the death camps was yet to be grasped.
80 Years After VE Day, We Remember That Victory Is Rooted in Virtue

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Eighty years ago, as news of Germany’s surrender spread, good people throughout Europe and the wider world flowed into the streets and open places to celebrate the end of Nazism and Hitler’s fever dream of blood and soil nationalism. To be sure, there was still much fighting to be done in the Asia-Pacific—though, happily, it would prove to be much less fighting than expected. True, also, a full accounting of the horrors of the death camps was yet to be grasped.
America’s Defeat 50 Years Ago

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

Today is the 50th anniversary of South Vietnam’s collapse, one of the late 20th century’s greatest tragedies. It followed 30 years of war, 20 of which had direct U.S involvement, entailing over 58,000 dead Americans and perhaps 1 million Vietnamese. U.S. Marines helping the last Americans and Vietnamese refugees escape by helicopter from the U.S. embassy roof was an optic that emblemized America’s decline. April 30, 1975, was America’s Cold War Dunkirk.
Redux: The Moral Injury of the Cross

2 months 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

2 months 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.