January 2012

“An Evangelical Social Gospel?” Book Review

Book Reviews

While there have always been schisms in the Christian faith, the current theological/political divide between the Christian Left and the Christian Right is a culmination of the past 100+ years ...

News of the Week: On Secular Theocracy and Sentencing.

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. David Theroux at the Independent Institute has written an excellent article called Secular Theocracy. You will see many references to ...

Ron Paul is NOT Obama

Libertarianism

In 2007 Barack Obama promised us Hope and Change. Change hardly came and hope is long gone. Even his most ardent supporters are pretty miffed. Glenn Beck — clearly not ...

The Story of Broke Response

President's Blog

Art Carden is a Christian economist who has a knack for bringing complex subjects down to understandable terms. While he already writes for Forbes.com, Mises.org, and other major online sites, ...

Korea Shows All That Is Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

History

The tension on the Korean peninsula escalated late last year when South Korea began live-firing drills off its coastline. That was after North and South Korea shelled each other for ...

News of the Week, January 15-21, 2012

News

Today we restart the traditional News of the Week posts, where we highlight a few significant, interesting, and amusing stories each week. David Neff at Christianity Today wonders if an ...

Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?

Politics

The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, and stifle debate over U.S. foreign policy. Throughout the twentieth ...

Weighing Political Planks and the Obama Dilemma

Politics

I have heard it said numerous times in the past month alone, by Christians nonetheless, that the important thing about the next election is “getting rid of Obama.” Such sentiment, ...

Idols of the Heart: Baptizing the War Prayer

Idols of the Heart: Baptizing the War Prayer

Christian Ethics

Since the bombs began to fall on Baghdad in March of 2003, churches, Christian leaders, religious organizations, and individual Christians have been telling us to pray for U.S. soldiers fighting ...

A Bad Way to Argue Against Being a Christian Libertarian

Theology

A few days after the Washington Post published my article on Christianity, libertarianism, and Ron Paul, one Dana Loesch, a former talk-show radio host and leader in the St. Louis, ...

6 Myths Catholics Tell About Libertarians

Christian Worldview

Norman’s note: This guest post is by Prof. Ryan McMaken. Even though the article is specifically about Catholic Christians, every major point could be applied to Protestants as well. Many ...

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