Our focus is the life of the Christian mind

We aim to bridge the gap between the traditional seminary and the local church

The Kirkwood Center for Theology and Ethics

Overview

The Kirkwood Center for Theology and Ethics is a non-profit Christian ministry dedicated to helping local churches educate and equip their leadership, staff and members in the disciplines of biblical and systematic theology, philosophy, church history, law, politics and cultural apologetics.

  • We are made up of scholars and ministers who have been working in the Church and the academy for decades

  • We are committed to a historic, orthodox Protestant Christianity

  • Our aim is to resource God’s people through sound, biblically faithful teaching and training.

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Articles & Blog

Covering topics from classes to politics and student organization events.

  • Political “Gods”: The Right-Wing God
    by Anthony Costello on February 20, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    In my previous post, The ‘Gods’ of Left and Right, I started my analysis of the ancient practice of expressing theology in political terms, and for civic utility, by demonstrating how liberal theology constructs a political “God” of the Left. In that post, I focused on the God modern philosophers like Hegel, and later A.N.

  • The “Gods” of Left and Right: The Left-Wing God
    by Anthony Costello on February 11, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Ever since Panaetius of Rhodes (185-110/109 BC) philosophers have recognized three modes of theological expression. These are: the poetic, the philosophic and the political. I have written in detail about each here. In brief, the poetic relates to the imaginative aspect of man’s thoughts about god, those that speak most powerfully to man’s existential concerns:

  • The Many Sins of “Bishop” Mariann Budde
    by Anthony Costello on January 30, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Recently Mariann Edgar Budde, an Episcopalian bishop who preached at Donald Trump during a National Cathedral prayer service, pleaded with the newly re-elected Trump “in the name of our god.” When I heard this, I was not so naive to assume that the deity Budde referenced was necessarily the same God that I, or many

  • What is the Soul? An Interview with Joshua Farris
    by Anthony Costello on January 8, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    This episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast takes a deep dive into theology and metaphysics with Dr. Joshua Ryan Farris, who contributed to and co-edited a recent book “The Origins of the Soul” (Routledge) which lays out five competing views on the origin and nature of the human soul from a Christian worldview. This

  • Reflecting On The Two Greatest Christmas Songs
    by Anthony Costello on December 20, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    I am not saying with this article that there are only two great Christmas songs. Nor that these two songs are objectively the greatest (although I do believe that beauty is objective). Rather my claim is that theologically and historically-speaking, these two songs are always consider among the great hymns of Christmas. And while I

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