Joseph Bottum

Joseph Bottum is a bestselling essayist in the Black Hills of South Dakota and author of The Christmas Plains (Image/Random House). An EP of Nashville recordings of his two new Christmas carols, Grace and Gladness, is available on iTunes and Amazon, with official music videos of “Some Come to See the Lord” and “Joy Will Keep Us” free to watch on YouTube.

December 27, 2022
Education & Culture, Politics & Law

December 27, 2022
Culture, Religion and the Public Square

Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)

By Joseph Bottum

Christmas isn’t tasteful, isn’t simple, isn’t clean, isn’t elegant. Give me the tacky and the exuberant and the wild, to represent the impossibly boisterous fact that God has intruded in this world.

December 23, 2019
Education & Culture, Politics & Law

December 23, 2019
Christmas, Culture, Religion and the Public Square

If we have to make proof of Christian faith dependent on a willful attitude about politics in order to wage the culture wars, are they really worth fighting?

November 29, 2011
Politics & Law

November 29, 2011
Politics

The Authority to Kill

By Joseph Bottum

If one doubts America’s high authority to undertake war for the sake of ideals, one must also question its high authority to administer the death penalty.

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Joseph Bottum

Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)

Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)

Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)

Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)

American Hope: Don’t Conflate Political Culture and Christianity

The Authority to Kill