The Narthex
The Hollow Oath
Public office oath-swearing is a covenant act, a custom with significance
By Marcus Peter | January 8th 2026 1:04 PMThe recent swearing in of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Quran has reignited a conversation that America prefers to keep comfortably superficial. Thus, public debate has circled symbols, optics, and inclusivity language while missing the heavier matter that involves history, Scripture, and moral philosophy. In recent years the…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Night Hope Was Born
God who once spoke from the mountain now speaks from within humanity
By Marcus Peter | December 29th 2025 11:46 AMOn Christmas Day, holy and radiant, we stand at the turning point of all human longing, a longing that began at the gates of Eden and echoed through every generation that followed. From the first moment of rupture between God and man, the world has carried a deep ache for…
READ FULL BLOG POSTSoul of the University
Only the Biblical covenantal worldview can restore higher education
By Marcus Peter | December 22nd 2025 12:28 PMTruth being under siege, the university -- once the Church’s cathedral of the intellect -- has become a temple to relativism, technocracy, and soulless pragmatism. The modern university no longer forms souls; it programs consumers. Once the glory of Christendom, our institutions of higher learning now echo with the nihilistic…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Bill of Rights and Christian Culture
The American experiment flourishes only when liberty remains married to moral order
By Marcus Peter | December 18th 2025 12:54 PMDecember 15, 1791, stands as a quiet hinge of history, since on that day the ratification of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution achieved final assent through Virginia’s approval, thereby giving formal civic expression to an idea whose roots run far deeper than Philadelphia, deeper than Enlightenment…
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