Some Online Essays

Works that also appeared in hard copy versions of the periodicals are listed with +

  1. “Same-Sex Marriage and the Failure of Justificatory Liberalism.” First Things On the Square (10 December 2008)

  2. “Evangelical and Catholic.” Crisis Magazine (17 November 2008)

  3. +"Is it Permissible for a Christian to Vote for a Mormon?" Christian Research Journal 30.5 (2007)

  4. +"Let Us Define `Pro-life' For You." Waco Tribune-Herald (29 October 2007) (PDF of print edition)

  5. "Proclaiming Christ to Today's Generation: What Catholics Can Learn From Evangelical Protestants." Lay Witness Magazine (online version only) (1 September 2007)

  6. "Rejoinder to Miller's Response. " First Things On the Square (25 June 2007)

  7. "The Irrationality of Richard Dawkins. " First Things On the Square (20 June 2007). See Robert T. Miller's reply, "Response to Francis Beckwith." First Things On the Square (25 June 2007)

  8. "When the Saint Goes Swearing In." First Things On the Square (24 May 2007)

  9. "The Case of Ted Haggard." American Spectator Online (7 November 2006)

  10. "Not All the News is Fit to Print." American Spectator Online (30 June 2006)

  11. +"Are There Limits to Religious Free Exercise?" Christian Research Journal 28.5 (2005): 52-53

  12. "Is Teaching Intelligent Design Illegal?" (debate with Douglas Laycock) Legal Affairs: The Magazine at the Intersection of Law and Life Online "Debate Club." 26-30 September 2005.

  13. +"Who and What Are We? (What the Abortion Debate Is Really About)." TrueU.org  (29 September 2005)

  14. +"Vatican Bible School: What John Paul II Can Teach Evangelicals." Touchstone Magazine.18.5 (June 2005)

  15. +"None Dare Call It Bigotry: Understanding the Post-Election Rants against Social Conservatives." Christian Research Journal 28.1 (2005): 52-53.

  16. +"Sticker Shock: In Georgia Evolution Case Court Misses Real Issue of Religious Tolerance." Legal Times of D.C. 28.5 (31 Jan. 2005)

  17. +"What's Upstairs?" A review essay of Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life 147 (Nov. 2004)

  18. +"Wise As Serpents: Christians, Politics, and Strategic Voting." Christian Research Journal. 27.3 (2004)

  19. +"Mere Materialism: Chronicles of Nonsense." A review of C.S. Lewis' Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason by Victor Reppert. Christian Research Journal 27.3 (2004)

  20. "What Would Reagan Do?" National Review Online (27 July 2004) (an essay arguing that the late Ronald W. Reagan would oppose embryonic stem-cell research)

  21. "Government-Sponsored Theology." American Spectator Online (7 April 2004).

  22. "Sects in the City: Liberal Tolerance, Robert Mapplethorpe and Mel Gibson." American Spectator Online (8 March 2004). An abridged version appeared in the 12 March 2004 issue of the Washington Times under the title "Imagine That."

  23. "Street Theatre in the Bay Area: What Social Conservatives Should Do." National Review Online (26 February 2004)

  24. +"Choice Words: A Critique of the New Prolife Rhetoric." Touchstone Magazine 17.1 (January 2004).This essay is a scaled-down, popular version of an essay originally published in the journal Ethics & Medicine. The Touchstone version is followed by a response from Frederica Matthewes-Green, a friend of Professor Beckwith who raises some important points against his argument.

  25. +"Reassessing Prolife Strategy." American Conservative Magazine (May 5, 2003) Review of Back to the Drawing Board: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement, ed. Teresa R. Wagner, St. Augustine's Press, 2003

  26. +"Deconstructing Liberal Tolerance." Christian Research Journal 22 (Spring 2000)

  27. +"With a Grain of Salt: Assessing a Mormon-Evangelical Dialogue," review of How Wide the Divide? by Craig Blomberg and Stephen Robinson, Christianity Today (Nov. 17, 1997)

  28. +"Philosophical Commitments, Public Policy, and Family Law." Focus on Law Studies 12.1 (American Bar Association) (Fall 1996)



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