Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Baylor University, and 2016-17 Visiting Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Among his many books is Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

President Obama: Ex-Liberal

Friday, October 14, 2011


The Christian University

Friday, September 30, 2011


Revelation, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium

Friday, September 16, 2011


Secular Gnosticism and The New York Times

Friday, September 2, 2011


Mormonism and Natural Law

Friday, August 19, 2011


Thomson’s “Defense of Abortion” at Forty

Friday, August 5, 2011


Surprise: The Reformation Happened!

Friday, July 22, 2011


Statecraft, Soulcraft, and the Politics of Envy

Friday, July 8, 2011


Unexamined Ballot, Not Worth Casting

Friday, June 24, 2011


Mormonism, Catholicism, and the Romney Candidacy

Friday, June 10, 2011


A Second Look at First Things

Friday, May 27, 2011


Analogies and the Death of Bin Laden

Friday, May 13, 2011


The National Day of Reason Doesn’t Have a Prayer

Friday, April 29, 2011


Reason, Conversion, and Plausibility

Friday, April 15, 2011


Come, Let Us Reason

Friday, April 1, 2011


How Political Correctness Makes Us Dumb

Friday, March 18, 2011


Apostolic Succession

Friday, March 4, 2011


Live Action and Telling Falsehoods

Friday, February 18, 2011


In the Time of My Confession

Friday, February 4, 2011


Transubstantiation: From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone

Friday, January 21, 2011


And the Word became Flesh and lived among us

Friday, December 24, 2010


Was Aquinas a Proto-Protestant?

Thursday, December 9, 2010


The Future

Friday, November 12, 2010


Reformation Day and Schism

Friday, October 29, 2010


Don’t Know Much About Theology

Friday, October 15, 2010


The Perils of Intra-Christian Apologetics

Friday, October 1, 2010


Open-mindedness: The New Closed-mindedness

Friday, September 17, 2010