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• Secularization Strikes Back: The End of American Religion?

  By H. David Baer on May 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “One striking feature about religious commitment today is how closely it aligns with conservative politics. Religiously committed Americans are very likely to vote Republican. Yet it wasn’t always that way. Alexis de Tocqueville famously attributed the strength of American religion… Read More ›

• Christians Associated for Democracy Translates Hungary’s COVID Law

  By H. David Baer on April 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The nonprofit I founded, Christians Associated for Democracy, arranged for the translation into English of Hungary’s recent emergency act on COVID. The law allows the Hungarian government to rule by decree until the end of the COVID crisis, whenever that… Read More ›

• A Time for Theologians during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

  By H. David Baer on April 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Twenty-five years ago when I first started graduate school, I used to enjoy reading First Things, the “journal of religion and public life” founded by Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus was a Lutheran “neoconservative” who eventually converted to Catholicism and became… Read More ›

• Magyarország új egyháztörvénye rosszabb mint az első

  By H. David Baer on January 19, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Itt tölthető le a cikk A cikk angolul A magyar „rabszolgatörvény” és a bíróságokról szóló törvény miatti felháborodásunkban azonban se feledkezzünk meg arról, hogy az Országgyűlés a 2018. december 11-i mozgalmas ülésszaka folyamán a magyar egyháztörvényt is módosította. Az Orbán… Read More ›

• Hungary’s New Church Law is Worse than the First

  By H. David Baer on December 28, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Hungarian Parliament on December 11, 2018 / source: AP  Download a copy of this article here  This article was published in, and can be cited as, “Hungary’s New Church Law is Worse than the First,” (2019) Occasional Papers on Religion… Read More ›

• Return of the Tyrants

  By H. David Baer on September 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  My latest column for The Cresset, about lessons from Aristotle and Plato on current politics. “Democracy today is under siege. It is being replaced in parts of the world with soft authoritarian regimes that preserve but manipulate democratic trappings to… Read More ›

• The Orthodox Church and Democracy: Can They Coexist?

  By H. David Baer on July 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s a review I wrote of Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine (2017) for the journal Occasional Papers on Religion and Eastern Europe. “Western Christians committed to the ideal of liberal democracy, like the author of this review, are often… Read More ›

• Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and the Work of Childhood

  By H. David Baer on June 25, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  I usually miss the big movie releases. In fact I still haven’t seen the latest Star Wars movie, The Force Keeps Waking Up, or whatever it’s called.  But I did make a point to see the new documentary about Mister… Read More ›

• Russia’s Influence on Cultural Conservatives

  By H. David Baer on January 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s my latest piece for The Cresset on how cultural conservatives have lost their moral bearings. “Cold War themes have returned unexpectedly with the renewal of Russian informational warfare. But unlike the Cold War, Russian propaganda today targets those on… Read More ›

• Is the Idea of the Centrist Project Realistic?

  By H. David Baer on May 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Evangelizers often run into resistance, and so I’ve noticed not everyone I talk to about the Centrist Project gets excited. “Sorry, but it’s a waste of time. Third parties can’t succeed in America. We’ve got a two party system and… Read More ›