To equip Christians in the task of defending and advancing Christendom, we are providing a growing collection of online resources. Since the battle against paganism in the contemporary West is largely intellectual, these resources aim to equip Christians to stand firm against the onslaught of pagan ideas such as materialism, relativism, socialism, Darwinism, pseudo-Christian movements, postmodernism, Keynesianism, nihilism, feminism, revolutionary political ideologies and other ideas that have been  eroding the fabric of Christendom.

We also provide an array of offensive weapons to solidify Christians in a better understanding of their faith. In our age of individualism, it is easy to view everything through the lens of personal salvation with no understanding of the need to build a Christian civilization that will last for thousands of years. Worse still, many Christians believe that the institutions and culture of Christendom are a Constantinian innovation and hardly a worthy goal for the 21st century church. We would prefer to wait to be ‘raptured’ away from the earth, working to get as many people saved in the meantime, than to follow King Alfred’s example of building a Christian society that will endure for future generations. The Alfred the Great Society provides the resources and theology to combat these erroneous ideas about the Christian vocation.

• Why AGS?

  It is good every once in a while to remind ourselves why the Alfred the Great Society exists and what it stands for. Who are we and what are our goals?

• A Critical Absence of the Divine: How a 'Zero-Sum' Theology Destroys Sacred Space

  What are the implications for our understanding of space when our theology is tinged with a 'zero-sum' approach?

• Sacred Times and Seasons (Part I)

  This year when Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, it is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the traditions of the historic church, in which the corporate worship of God was an inseparable part of Christmas Day.

• Sacred Times and Seasons (Part 2)

  What does the celebration of the Christian calendar tell us about time and space? What is the relationship between sacred and secular time?

• Sir Clement Attlee: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

  Clement Attlee brought socialism to Britain under a cloak of Christian language.

• Columns at the Chuck Colson Center

  If you are concerned to think Christianly and to apply the categories of the Biblical worldview to every area of life, then you may want to keep abreast of my regular columns at the Charles Colson Center.

• From Revivalism to Secularism (Evangelicalism and Secularism part 3)

  In the 19th and 20th century, a new type of 'secularism' emerged as evangelicals began reviewing culture as an autonomous organism independent of any religious moorings. American culture was becoming secularized by default as soon as Americans embraced the unconscious dualism inherent in the false disjunction between Christ and culture.

• Republicanizing the American Religion (Evangelicalism and Secularism part 2)

  In 18th century, evangelical Christianity became virtually indistinguishable from the political ideals of republicanism, setting the stage for a complete redefinition of the secular.

• From ‘Christ of Culture’ to ‘Christ Against Culture’ (Evangelicalism and Secularism part 1)

  Using Niebuhr's categories on the relationship between Christ and culture, we find that the move to accommodate Christ to culture has a curious knack for leaving Christ pitted against culture. This is the first in a series of three articles on Evangelicalism and Secularism, seeking to recover the "Christ transforming culture" paradigm and understand the ways it has been obscured.

• Defending Christendom with Good Manners

  While there are many answers to this question, ranging from strong families to mission work to apologetic training, one critical aspect that is often overlooked is the role that good manners play in protecting Christian civilization. This article explains why this is and how good manners are crucial in the struggle against barbarism.