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 Dec 19, 2025

What is the future of legal conservatism? How should it reorient itself to present challenges? Jesse Merriam, professor at Patrick Henry College, joins the show to answer these questions (and more). 
Legal Conservatism for Our Time - The American Mind
https://americanmind.org/features/legal-conservatism-for-our-time/
Shock Therapy for Our Lawless Legal System - The American Mind
https://americanmind.org/features/legal-conservatism-for-our-time/shock-therapy-for-our-lawless-legal-system/

Friday Dec 12, 2025

A debate over common good constitutionalism, natural law, and classical jurisprudence has occupied much of the conservative legal world for the past several years. Jeremy Christiansen, professor of law at Regent University School of Law and editor of the New Digest, comes on the show to talk about what the classical legal tradition is. 
 
Jeremy M. Christiansen, J.D. | Regent University
https://www.regent.edu/faculty/jeremy-christiansen/
 
Substack: The New Digest | Managing Editors
https://thenewdigest.substack.com/

Friday Dec 05, 2025

Thomas Pink (King's College London) comes on the show to discuss Roman Catholic integralism, Francisco Suarez, Thomas Hobbes, and more. 
Thomas Pink, King's College London, Philosophy, Faculty Member
https://kcl.academia.edu/ThomasPink

Friday Nov 21, 2025

James Baird, author of King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government, joins the show to discuss confessional and historic Protestant political thought. 
 
Purchase Kings of Kings by James Baird here: https://press.founders.org/shop/king-of-kings/

Friday Nov 14, 2025

Miles Smith & Adam Carrington join Timon to talk about the religious and political thought of Anglicans in the early republic.
 
To purchase That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic 1789-1860, go to:
https://a.co/d/0Ij2Pnt

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

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

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

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

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/ 

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