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Bryan McGraw

Bryan T. McGraw is Dean of Natural and Social Sciences, Director of the Aequitas Fellows Program, and a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Wheaton College. His first book, Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-editor of Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought and has published work in Perspectives on Political Science, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, Political Studies, and several other places. He teaches classes on classical and medieval political thought, modern political thought, church and state, and political ethics. His co-authored book Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics was published in early 2025.

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On Strategy, Speed, and Just War

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Life is such that doing right, attending to the very real and inescapable moral fabric of the universe, is not some hapless, wooly-headed foolishness. It is instead, or at least it can be, the most effective way of pursuing a just and decent order in a fragmented and fallen world.
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Religion Is Good for Democracy, but Is Democracy Enough?

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For Robert Wuthnow, the purpose of democracy is not to arrive at some perfectly blessed country but instead learn how to contest—not resolve—our differences through organizing, argument, elections, and voting. Fair enough. But that seems too thin a conception of democracy, one that really puts too much faith in the democratic process as such.
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Hopeful Realism: Renewing Evangelical Political Morality

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Throughout the twentieth century, American evangelicals have neglected the natural law tradition, leaving us without a serious and coherent grounding for our political deliberations and judgments. We need a theologically grounded framework that articulates our principled and prudential convictions, provides us the language with which to deliberate about them amid disagreement, and helps find commonality around real goods. We believe that a revitalized Augustinian natural law theory can help provide such a framework for evangelical Christians.
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Dobbs and the Pro-Life Future

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The prospect of a post-Roe America calls not only for celebration, but also for a realistic appraisal of the road ahead, which will require the pro-life movement to rebuild itself as a movement that goes beyond partisan divisions and that also helps create a social, political, and economic order in which life is encouraged and supported.