The Crucifixion Repudiates Earthly Powers
Malcolm Muggeridge was a journalist and contemporary of C.S. Lewis. I have seen him quoted by Christian writers multiple times …
Tag: philosophy
LCC author Doug Douma and Gordon Clark
LCC author Doug Douma is now an admin on the Gordon H. Clark Foundation website. Dr. Clark (1902-1985) was a …
25 Reasons I Could Never Be Elected
Today, being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day. Aside from the fact that I don’t …
Erasmus on the Just War
“The most just of wars brings with it a train of evils—if indeed any war can really be called just.” …
Erasmus on Christianity and War: Christian War Fever
“I simply admit that I have written some rather distasteful things for the purpose of frightening Christians away from the …
Government and Marriage Debate: November 16, 2013
I will be participating in a debate this Saturday at 7:00 pm EST (November 16, 2013) at Patrick Henry College …
Erasmus on the Evils of War
“Since we see that there is hardly ever any respite from wars, which normally arise from the ambition or anger …
Six Ideas to Keep Us Human
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
Christian Philosopher Wins Prestigious Rescher Prize
Christian philosopher Alvin C. Plantinga has won the prestigious Rescher Prize for contributions to systematic philosophy. David Theroux of the …
Is there a difference between “libertarian Christianity” and “Christian libertarianism”?
All-I-Am-Is-Yours asks: I am trying to better understand the intellectual foundations behind the similarities of both libertarianism and christianity, however …
Locking Eyes With Culture
This is part two of a series liveblogging Tim Suttle’s book, Public Jesus. You can read the introduction to the …
Moral Busybodies
This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d …
My talk at the Students for Liberty Texas Conference 2010
Last fall I gave a talk at the Students for Liberty Texas Conference 2010 during the Student Panel that touched …
The Philosophy of Ludwig von Mises
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article is …
Who Owns You? I sure don’t…
I am on the board of The Foundation for a Free Society, and one of our objectives is to put …
What is the best book on the essentials of libertarianism?
Have you ever wondered what book you ought to give to a person inquiring about libertarianism to you? What do …
The Lasting Influence of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard
Let us take a brief departure from politics to some theological history, shall we? Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Søren Kierkegaard …
Anarchy and Christianity
Anarchy and Christianity is a short work presenting the essentials of Ellul’s political philosophy with respect to Scripture. It reads in a scholarly manner, especially with his references to historical and textual criticism and the assumption that the reader knows something about Marxian class theory, historical theological traditions, and even a bit of Greek
Conscience on the Battlefield
Originally authored by Leonard Read, the following dialogue is imagined to have taken place while dying on a battlefield near …
The Abrahamic Legacy: The Jewish Ideal of Freedom
A thought-provoking article about historical Judaism being connected to liberty appeared on LewRockwell.com yesterday, and I think it is well …
Edmund Opitz – Minister to Liberty
If a patron saint for the libertarian movement were to be chosen, at the top of the list would be Rev. Edmund A. Opitz, minister and theologian for liberty. He was a good friend of Murray Rothbard and many others in the freedom movement—he was present from the beginning and knew almost everyone. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Opitz called the church to an integrated understanding of religion, economics, and individual liberty. He passed away in 2006, creating a void yet to be filled but leaving this world much better than he had found it.
Don’t Tread on Me
The message “Don’t Tread” communicates in two words what the entire political philosophy of classical liberalism is about: desiring to be free from oppression from whatever quarter. In other words, “don’t mess with me.” This message is used by those advocating a less-invasive state, because governments — through taxation, legislation, regulation, surveillance, etc. — are the main aggressors upon individual rights.
Why being a candidate can be beneficial for liberty
Though I think it is misguided to believe that electoral politics is the primary means of effecting change for the …
The Liberating Arts
By Edmund Opitz. —- The recent movie called Out of Africa has acquainted millions of Americans with the name of …
Podcast: Live and Let Live Radio Interview
Today’s podcast is actually an interview I recorded with Gary Johnson of the Live and Let Live Radio Show on …
Defending Freedom and the Free Society
By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped …
Liberalism Used to Mean Freedom
Life is not a mere game. Living is a lot more complex than any sport, but life and games are analogous in at least one respect: Neither is possible without an appropriate set of rules to be followed. It’s the rule book which determines the character of a game, and no game is even conceivable without one. To throw out the rule book is to forsake the game. By the same token, if we ignore, or deny, or break, or improperly identify, the ethical ground rules for flourishing human life, then the quality of life — individual and social —will decline.
Can Christians Be Libertarians?
If a stranger told you he’s an evangelical Christian who believes homosexuality is a sin and that the Holy Bible is the inerrant word of God, which political label would you ascribe to him? Odds are good you’d assume he’s a conservative, because, well, those seem like the calling cards of a right-winger…
“The Fallacy of Intellectual Property”
The Ludwig von Mises Institute has featured my good friend Daniel Krawisz (from the Libertarian Longhorns) and his article The …
Summer Reading – Top 10 books that you should drop everything to read now…
Looking for some good summer reading, fellow Christian libertarians? I gave this list to a friend in mid-July (a reader …