Hale Institute Podcast
The Hale Institute at New Saint Andrews College is dedicated to the study and discussion of law in its substance, grounding, and effects on persons and community. The Institute carries out its mission both through course study within the college curriculum and in wider public discourse through publication and symposia. The Institute’s aims are informed by the Christian faith in the Reformed tradition and directed to the end of empowering persons to honor God and love neighbor through promoting the conditions and institutions of political liberty and civic virtue. Timon Cline is the Director of Scholarly Initiatives at Hale Institute and host of the podcast.
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Episodes
Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Mark David Hall, professor at Regent University, bravely makes his second appearance on the show to talk about his 2023 book, Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land, a history of Christianity's influence on American freedom and equality.
Friday Apr 25, 2025
Friday Apr 25, 2025
Daniel Strand, professor of ethics at the Air War College, comes on the show to break down and critique 20th century liberal readings of Augustine's City of God and provide a corrective consideration of Augustine's cosmological politics.
Augustine the "Liberal"
https://providencemag.com/2019/03/augustine-liberal/
From Domination to Liberation: Augustine's Critique of Roman Political Religion in City of God
https://paideiacenter.com/special-lectures-5/
Reformed on Warhttps://americanreformer.org/2024/12/reformed-on-war/
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Owen Anderson, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, comes on the show to talk about natural law, Matthew Hale, wisdom, and death.
Subscribe to Owen Anderson's substack here:https://drowenanderson.substack.com/
Purchase Christian Philosophy and the Fear of God: Sir Matthew Hale on Considering our Final End here:https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Philosophy-Fear-God-Considering/dp/B0DWLJJW85
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Chad Pecknold, professor at the Catholic University of America, talks to Timon about the proper reading of Augustine's famous work.
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Timon is joined by Tom Price (DPhil. Oxford), who teaches theology at Gordon Conwell and the University of Saint Joseph and co-hosts the Theology Pugcast, for a wide-ranging discussion of natural law.
Theology Pugcasthttps://crwiley.com/the-theology-pugcast/
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Longtime editor of Modern Age, Daniel McCarthy, comes on the show to talk about what the so-called New Right has going for it, and what it can afford to learn from the western tradition.
https://modernagejournal.com/
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Graham Shearer teaches theology at Union Theological College. He joins Timon on the show to talk about the use of historical sources and current political trends.
Friday Jan 17, 2025
Friday Jan 17, 2025
Timon is joined by Daniel Pitt, associate fellow at the University of Hull, to talk about the common law tradition, conservatism, and the legacy of Roger Scruton.
"Common Law Conservatism" - Daniel Pitt
https://lawliberty.org/common-law-conservatism/
"Piety, Love, and the Permanent Things" - Daniel Pitt
https://lawliberty.org/forum/piety-love-and-the-permanent-things/
Friday Dec 20, 2024
Friday Dec 20, 2024
The first repeat guest of the podcast, Miles Smith (Hillsdale College), stops by to talk about his new book on the “Christian institutionalism” of the early American republic.
Religion and Republic by Miles Smithhttps://www.amazon.com/Religion-Republic-Christian-Founding-American/dp/1949716317
Friday Nov 29, 2024
Friday Nov 29, 2024
Joe Rigney, a teaching fellow at New Saint Andrews College, talks to Timon about the different camps of Protestant political theology today.
https://americanreformer.org/2024/11/everymans-guide-to-protestant-political-thought/