"The Bible never commands us to obey unjust laws that contradict God's will, and yet in 1 Peter 2:13 we are commanded to submit to 'every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake.' It therefore follows that legislating, if done in accordance with the principles of God’s law, is not unjust."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/confessional-theonomy-a-brief-response-to-luke-saint

"Clark’s traducianist interpretation of the passage also entails a more particularistic view, where each nation or ethnos exhibits distinct physical, spiritual, psychological, and cultural characteristics and gifts."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/clarkian-traducianism-and-ethnic-distinctions

Mark and Ryan contemplate disrupting a local church conference where an R2K heretic is sheduled to speak.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/dissenting-presbyterians-episode-3-cigars-in-the-church-kitchen

"Calvin’s special concern for the people of Geneva as a covenantal city is evident in his emphasis on the salvation and well-being of their posterity."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/john-calvin-s-geneva-catechism-1545-and-ethno-christocracy

"The annual population decline in just these two nations—Germany and Italy—is now roughly equal to the total population of the state of Vermont."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/nations-disappearing-and-a-civilization-dying

"Grace renews nature. That’s all that Kinists are advocating. Grace renews individuals, families, clans, nations and races. It does so not because of the greatness of what it is restoring but it does so because of the grace that is doing the restoring."

https://ironink.org/2025/01/bavinck-supporting-rev-hunter/

"In historic Protestant political theory nations were viewed as extended families with a common ancestry."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/ecclesiastical-inquisitors-ethnic-complementarianism-and-world-war-ii

"My quote that the ARP cites is about as controversial in its truth as an assertion that 'if one falls into water one is sure to get wet'."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/bret-mcatee-maurice-pinay-and-winston-churchill-on-the-jews

Pastor Bret McAtee compares the neoconservative social ontology of Matt Walsh with that of Stephen Wolfe.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-81-what-matt-walsh-and-stephen-wolfe-have-in-common

"We call upon the new Trump administration to support the existing secessionist movements in Southern Africa, especially Orania, and commit to recognizing Boer independence once it has, by God’s grace, been achieved."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/property-expropriation-without-compensation-in-south-africa

A brand new publication has just been made available through our digital library.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/digital-library/plewes-adam-2025-what-the-bible-says-about-national-borders

"[It is] a matter of religion to restore the bond of kinship by means of the marriage tie before kinship becomes too remote—to call kinship back, as it were, as it disappeared into the distance.”
Augustine (City of God, book XV, Chpt. 16)

https://ironink.org/2025/01/vice-president-j-d-vance-sanctions-kinism-and-the-fur-flies/

"Just over a week ago, the Pactum Institute urged the Trump administration to express support for the Boer people of South Africa. Six days later Trump did exactly that."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/from-south-africa-to-greenland-a-nationalist-appraisal-of-trump-s-geopolitics

"The Pactum Institute is therefore currently utilizing our political contacts to convey the message of how important the cause of Afrikaner freedom is to the White House."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/the-pactum-institute-is-working-to-take-the-cause-of-afrikaner-self-determination-to-the-white-house

In this week's episode Pastor McAtee discusses select quotes from Maurice Pinay's book "The Plot Against the Church."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-82-quotes-from-maurice-pinay-s-the-plot-against-the-church

"The very word 'citizen,' just like its Germanic equivalent 'burgher,' means a member of the body of the city. This points to the constitutive nature of cities or towns in a nation."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/the-rights-and-governance-of-the-city-as-polis

Michael and Cody continue their discussion of The Marrow of Theology by William Ames, with a focus on chapter 10: the special government of intelligent creatures.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/old-paths-podcast

Edmund Burke contra the magic dirt theory.

In this episode Michael Hunter discusses Benedict Pictet's The Marrow of Christian Ethics, which he recently translated and published.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/old-paths-podcast-marrow-9-special-government-copy

"Depite their errors in terms of doing away with the classic Christocratic view of civil government as articulated in article 36 of the Belgic Confession and wrongly embracing pluralism and universal franchise, I believe the Dutch Neo-Calvinists Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck can still be appraised for their polemics against liberal egalitarianism."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/the-neo-calvinists-and-egalitarianism

"The protection of national borders, the preservation of the native populace, and the honoring of one’s ancestral heritage are all integral to fulfilling the fifth commandment."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/christian-nationalism-and-the-fifth-commandment