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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Covering topics from classes to politics and student organization events.

  • Is USAID Necessary for Salvation?
    by Anthony Costello on July 9, 2025 at 3:10 pm

    Recently there has been another wave of what I can only call “irrational thinking” about politics by, in my view, otherwise very good Evangelical theologians. To take one example of such theological irrationality, or perhaps theological extremism, I quote fellow Patheos contributor and respected theologian, Roger Olson. Olson’s Radical Theological Claim: Non Salus extra USAID?

  • Did Jordan Peterson Just Get Exposed? Yes, And Here’s Why
    by Anthony Costello on May 30, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Somehow I knew this was coming. I had hinted at it in various FB posts, the occasional Twitter/X tweet and in comment sections on YouTube videos. I knew, eventually, that Jordan Peterson’s comeuppance would, well, come up. I did not look forward to it, nor did I relish in it when it happened. After all

  • Pope Francis and The (Continued) Crisis of Modernity
    by Anthony Costello on April 22, 2025 at 8:41 pm

    Pope Francis, aka Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has died. As to the man and his present status, the most I can say is “who am I to judge?” My hope is that the Bishop of Rome lived out his personal life in close communion with Christ, having trusted in Jesus for the salvation of his

  • 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:

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