March 19–20, 2021

Leonardo’s Coffeehouse
159 N 4th St.
Steubenville, OH 43952

Liberal societies confuse man’s relationship with God and neighbor; they establish civic peace through fear instead of justice; they follow a “city plan” of violence. But the Christian city ought to be built according to a blueprint of love.

Our conference will articulate the theological, metaphysical, and political principles on which to build societies apart from the violent foundations of liberalism and upon the sure rock of the Gospel. To this end, we are organizing our conference around the state and the economy—asking what they would be like as reformed by Christianity.

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R. R. Reno is the editor of First Things magazine. He was formerly a professor of theology and ethics at Creighton University. Reno is the author of several books, including Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Fighting the Noonday Devil — and Other Essays Personal and Theological, In the Ruins of the Church, Redemptive Change: Atonement and the Cure of the Soul, and a theological commentary on the Book of Genesis in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series, for which he also serves as general editor. He has also coauthored two books, Heroism and The Christian Life and Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible. His scholarly work ranges widely in systematic and moral theology, as well as in controverted questions of biblical interpretation.

Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder and deputy editor of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, and a director of the association Pro Civitate Dei (France). He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, as well as a proud citizen of the Osage Tribal Nation. He received his AB in history and PhD in government, both from Harvard.

Edmund Waldstein O.Cist. is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria, lecturer in moral theology at the Abbey's theological college, and parish priest of Gaaden and Sulz. Born in Italy and raised in the United States and Austria, he studied at Thomas Aquinas College in California, the Hochschule Benedikt XVI in Heiligenkreuz, and the University of Vienna. He edits The Josias and blogs at Sancrucensis.

D.C. Schindler, a Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, studied the Great Books at Notre Dame and theology at the JPII Institute, and earned a PhD in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of many books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Notre Dame, 2017) and The Politics of the Real: The Church between Liberalism and Integralism (New Polity, 2021), a translator of German and French, and a collaborating editor of Communio: International Catholic Review. Professor Schindler lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, with his wife and three children.

John Médaille is a businessman in Irving, Texas, and also an Instructor in Theology at the University of Dallas, where he teaches a unique course on the Social Encyclicals for Business Students. He is the father of five, grandfather of two, and husband of one. He is the author of The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and is finishing up another book, Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism. John also blogs at The Distributist Review.

Andrew Willard Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University with a focus on the Church of the High Middle Ages. Jones’s work is primarily concerned with historical political theology and with the reconciliation of the post-modern with the pre-modern. Methodologically, his work treats history as a theological discipline and not as a secular archaeology. Jones is the author of Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in St. Louis IX’s Sacramental Kingdom. He is also working on a one volume history of the Catholic Church.

Marc Barnes is a father of two, PhD candidate at St. Mary's University Twickenham, the editor of New Polity magazine, and the president of The Harmonium Project, a nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization and transformation in Steubenville, Ohio.

Brad Barlow is a DPhil student in Christian Ethics at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Prior to his DPhil, he completed an MPhil in Christian Ethics at Oxford and an MA in Religious Studies (Ethics) at the University of Virginia. In addition to his studies, Brad has worked in the field of corporate finance and valuation since 2006, first as an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank and then as a senior instructor for the training firm Wall Street Prep, Inc., a position he continues to hold. Brad graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1997 and served for over 5 years as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force. He has been married to Heather for 5 years, and they have two sons, Harmon and Everett.

Sean Domencic (formerly published as Thomas Hackett) is the co-founder and director of Tradistae, a sacristan, and a construction worker. He and his wife live in community at Holy Family Catholic Worker in Lancaster, PA.