The Dying and Desperate Left
The American Left – which never had a sterling record to begin with – is rapidly deteriorating. In one sense …
Tag: law
The Exorcism of Collectivism
Exorcising Collectivism out of Personhood (or, The Exorcism of Collectivism) Have you ever found yourself living out an expected role …
The Flag is a Coffin Veil
“Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus …
The Global Populist Revolt and the Church
2016 will go down in the history books as a watershed year for world politics. Between the stunning Brexit vote …
Drop the Scapegoat! The Pragmatic Case for Christian Nonviolence
Our culture is engaged in a cinematic Mexican standoff, but the weapons we point at each other are real only …
Jamin Hübner on ‘Distributive Justice’
Dr. Jamin Hübner recently participated in a discussion at the University of Mississippi pertaining to distributive justice. Those on the …
The Drug Test That Could Cost You Everything
Although I have written over fifty articles on the injustice, hypocrisy, insanity, senselessness, inhumanity, and evils of the government’s war …
Law Has Become the Anonymous Violence of the Crowd
If black lives matter to you, you wouldn’t use violence to punish nonviolent behaviors. As the late Philando Castile’s mother …
Should Christians rethink capital punishment?
Especially for death penalty proponents, Romans 13:4 has come to occupy a central role in debates on capital punishment. There Paul writes: “[I]f you do what is wrong, you should be afraid for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” Notably, Southern Baptists cite Romans 13:4 in their church’s official statement supporting capital punishment.
What the Bible says about Immigrants
Many conservative and liberal Christians in America look upon immigrants very negatively. Despite the irrefutable evidence that immigrants – even …
Rosa Parks Revisited
Republicans are paying more attention to what they tweet after their latest attempt to pander to blacks to try and …
The Freedom Nobody Wants
This essay is by Reverend Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not …
Abortion and the Idolatry of Law
After Roe v. Wade, something amazing happened. New organizations, care centers, adoption services, and support networks for pregnant mothers popped …
How the Church can reasonably respond to same-sex marriage
Well-known pastor and author Rob Bell recently stated that he now supports same-sex marriage. Odyssey Networks posts a new interview …
Should Christians Support Gambling Laws?
There is no disputing the fact that gambling can be addictive and financially ruinous. In some cases, compulsive gamblers might …
The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom
Book review of The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom by Laurence Vance. Vance Publications, 2012. Orlando, FL. …
Stubborn Facts and Hard Heads
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
The Apostle Paul and Caesar
Randy England has an interesting article at LewRockwell.com regarding Paul’s attitude toward secular authority. Here is a short excerpt: —- …
Constitutional Conservative or Libertarian?
This article originally appeared in the May 2012 edition of The Future of Freedom, a publication of The Future of …
Winner Take All
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally …
The Law is Written on Our Hearts
Cross-posted at the Values & Capitalism Project A great many people believe that changing the law is the solution to …
News of the Week: On Secular Theocracy and Sentencing.
Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. David Theroux at the Independent Institute has written an excellent …
Sinful Behavior, Government Force, and the Church
A post I wrote about two years ago for the Western Standard: —- My wife and I were visiting a …
“The Ethics of Martin Luther” Book Review
Book review of The Ethics of Martin Luther by Paul Althaus, translated by Robert C. Schultz. Augsberg Fortress Press, 1972. …
Against Net Neutrality
December 21, 2010, the FCC voted 3-2 for new measures regulating how content is transferred over the internet. Stephan Kinsella’s …
Classical Liberalism and Religion
Originally by Edmund Opitz in the November 1985 issue of The Freeman. Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of …
Hands Off My Home
Thanks in large part to the work of the Institute for Justice and the 2005 Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London, eminent domain (the taking of private property by the government) has caused much grassroots and legal activity.
Freedom and Majority Rule
By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World …
How can we have such a skewed perspective on sin?
It’s one thing to consider homosexuality a sin, it is entirely another to consider outlawing the practice of homosexuality. Homosexual individuals have just as much a right to behave in non-coercive ways as heterosexuals. And why? Because they are human beings.
Barrel ‘monster’ gets student arrested
From the Police-arresting-people-for-stupid-reasons department… Barrel ‘monster’ gets student arrested – Weird news- msnbc.com. When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen …