David Gornoski Interviews Ron Paul
Author and friend of LCI, David Gornoski, recently interviewed Ron Paul on the subject of Christian nonviolence. It’s always great …
Tag: morality
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 …
The West’s Deadly Speech Pathology
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Go to any …
Conservative and Libertarian Christians: Worldview Allies or Enemies?
I am so glad my colleague Norman Horn, founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute (LCI), was given a …
Post-Debate Recap and What Should Have Been Said
Today I participated in a debate-of-sorts on the Up For Debate radio show. The other discussant was Dr. Al Mohler, …
Al Mohler Misunderstands Libertarians
This article is by CJay Engel and originally appeared at The Reformed Libertarian. A reader of this site called my …
Christianity, Libertarianism, and the Drug War
This talk was given on August 8, 2015 as a keynote address at the Christians for Liberty Conference in Austin, …
Who denigrates marriage? Maybe you and I do.
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians are not going to like what I am going to say. And neither are most …
Tearing Out Your Eye and Quitting Your Job
In this guest post LCC welcomes Matthew Gilliland, libertarian writer and speaker. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central …
The Moral Case for a Free Economy
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, by Robert Sirico (Regnery Publishing, 2012), 213 pages. Critics …
Ministers make a difference
A friend relayed to me a remarkable quote from a recent sermon at his congregation: “And if I thought that …
Thoughts on Censorship
By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay …
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 …
Catholic Theologians Say Prostitution Should Be Legal
This guest article is by Ryan McMaken, and was originally posted at LewRockwell.com. I refer of course to the Catholic …
Instinct and Ethics
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
Libertarianism and Abortion
My recent article “Should Libertarians Be Conservatives” elicited a huge response – most of it positive. Some libertarians, however, were …
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 …
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: A Book Review
Let’s take a stroll today through something other than politics today. I recently read a book by Douglas Sean O’Donnell …
Are State Lotteries Immoral?
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government …
Moral Busybodies
This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d …
Thoughts on the word “We”
Progressive Christians deride libertarian individualism as contrary to the value system of the Kingdom of God. In their minds, to …
Why would Christians want prohibition?
Thanks to Jonathan Boatwright for this excellent submission. In today’s political climate, a hot button issue is the legalization of …
Biblical Roots of American Liberty
Originally by Edmund Opitz in the July 1991 (41) edition of The Freeman. —- The First Amendment to the Constitution …
Mission Accomplished, Obama-Style
On January 23, 2009 a two-day-inaugurated President Obama ordered his first murder of Iraqis with Predator drones. Now, exactly sixteen months past his inauguration, Barack Obama has failed to live up to one of the simplest measurable campaign promises I can imagine, a complete pullout of Iraq in sixteen months. We haven’t seen one brigade returned home without another taking its place, in fact nearly all aspects of the Federal Government’s Middle East interventions continue to increase in scope.
Enjoy Capitalism!
Capitalism is the only moral social system. Only a capitalist system allows you to act in your own interest, to keep what you have worked for and trade it with other willing individuals. For much of human history, wealth has been produced primarily by looting or enslaving others. Under capitalism wealth is created by serving others, by creating values for them.
Ethics and Business
Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was a businessman? The show that portrayed this businessman as a person of integrity and vision, who labored long hours to produce a product that supplied a genuine need, which he marketed at prices people could afford? Who treated his employees with generosity and consideration, and his customers with unfailing courtesy? Who was a devoted family man, active in civic affairs, and a churchman?
Podcast: What Is Moral About Economic Freedom
Libertarian Christians could learn something from our Jewish friends if we would pay attention. I had never heard of Rabbi …