Nationalism is the first ideology to take community seriously. We do live with other people and they matter. Nationalism defines who is in and who is out. The greatest evil is to be ruled by someone who is not one of us.Most of us are familiar with a nation/state, but many of the problems caused […]

Conservatism is the idea that we must “conserve” what we have. It opposes change for change’s sake. Conservatism can be an outlook on the world or a wise caution against wholesale change. And, conservatism can be ideology agnostic — Some may desire to conserve a vision of liberalism, while a conservative elsewhere in the world […]

The first ideology in The Political Visions and Illusions book is liberalism. Liberalism, in the classic sense, is as common to us as water is to a fish. We found it very helpful to think a little more clearly about our own political assumptions. This episode and the next several will be heavily dependent upon […]

What makes a political idea into an idol for Christians? In this episode, begin to talk about how David Koyzis’s book has helped us see that political ideologies are incomplete and as a result comprise a false gospel. This episode and the next several will be heavily dependent upon this book, Political Visions and Illusions […]