Dr. Norman Horn

Norman is the founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Lipscomb University. He has been widely published in multiple fields and has written for the Washington Post, Relevant Magazine, Young American Revolution, the Journal of Research of NIST, and UV Solutions Magazine.

Obamacare vs. Samaritan Health-Care Ministry

Media

Reason.tv has an amazing short video recently released about the effects of Obamacare upon health-care providers that operate quite differently than your typical insurance company. The video is only seven ...

U.S. Attack on Syria Would Be a Criminal Act

News

The Catholic Patriarch of Syria has recently stated that a United States attack on Syria would be a “criminal act,” highlighting how U.S. government interventionism not only affects millions of ...

Would a war with Syria be just?

News

Just war theory is not perfect, but insofar as it can be used as a “bludgeon” against war I am not entirely against it. To that end, here is an ...

Doug Bandow on Virtue and a Free Society

Media

The Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow, fellow Christian and libertarian, gave an excellent lecture on virtue and the free society back in 1994, and the recording recently came to my attention. ...

How Conservative is Your Senator?

Libertarianism

One of the main tenets of conservatism is supposed to be fidelity to the Constitution. Let’s see how Republicans in the U.S. Senate who tout their conservatism at every election ...

Should we hold all things in common?

President's Blog

Keith asks via email: Do you think that if the church really returned to the way of the early church where they had all things in common, then social security ...

Flying Robots! Oh My!

Media

And now for something completely different… The infamous creators of the Bed Intruder song, the Gregory Brothers, have released a hilarious new video for their “Songify the News” series with ...

The Significance of the Austrian School and Ludwig von Mises

Economics

This is the first essay in LibertarianChristians.com series “Essentials of Austrian Economics.” Throughout this series, we will explore important economic concepts and why they are crucial to an understanding of ...

Is Progress Possible?

Culture

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book God In the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, subtitled ...

From God or the Sword

Economics

This article is by libertarian luminary Frank Chodorov, excerpted from chapter two of The Rise and Fall of Society. Is the State ordered in the nature of things? The classical ...

Copperhead: Ron Maxwell at his finest

History

This review was featured on LewRockwell.com on July 11, 2013. Finding a movie about war with no actual battle scenes is pretty rare. A rarer find is a war movie ...

Ayn Rand vs. C.S. Lewis? (News of the Week, June 9, 2013 Edition)

News

Recapping a few interesting and significant links of the past few weeks. Here are some things you might not have seen in your internet sojourns lately… Rand Paul had an ...

Liberty is Personal

Media

LearnLiberty.org has a great new series of videos out called “Liberty is Personal.” Check out the series!

Sacred Music is for Everyone

Libertarianism

Jeffrey Tucker, head of Laissez Faire Books, has been quite active in the Catholic music tradition for some time. In June, Tucker will be presenting a paper at the Sacra ...

The Iraq War is a War on Christians

War and Peace

Almost two years ago, I reported that there are no more churches in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. Now, Andrew Doran at AmCon Mag tells the story of ...

News of the Week (May 14, 2013): The “Breeding for Liberty” Edition

Announcements

Recapping the interesting and significant news of the past (few) weeks… It has been a quiet past week at LCC, for one particular reason that is quite newsworthy: my wife ...

U.S. Soldiers can be court-martialed for sharing their faith

News

Breitbart reports that the Pentagon recently released a statement that soldiers who share their faith (I presume Christian or otherwise): This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the ...

C.S. Lewis on Christian Marriage (in brief)

Culture

C.S. Lewis had some wise words regarding marriage in Mere Christianity: “I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage is one: ...

Fox News Has a Weak Constitution

Media

Jon Stewart rips commentators at Fox News a new one in this 7 minute segment from the Daily Show. In the clip, he puts on display the frightening inconsistency of ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Christ and Compassion

Christian Worldview

Lawrence Reed (president of the Foundation for Economic Education) speaks of compassion and the State in a new article in The Freeman. In every election campaign, we hear the word ...

Our Disordered Lives

Culture

By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the July 1973 issue of The ...

Theology doesn’t begin and end with Romans 13

Featured

On Easter Sunday, I joined a Facebook thread where the role of government and Romans 13 were discussed. A number of points about the Christian’s relation to government were aired, ...

Renewing Our Work (News of the Week, March 30th Edition)

News

Recapping interesting and significant news in the recent weeks… In the past few weeks, we have encountered a new pope, a currency downfall in Cyprus, filibusters, and many other curious ...

John Howard Yoder on “Managing the World”

President's Blog

Tim T. points us to a great quote from John Howard Yoder: “And might it be, if we could be freed from the compulsiveness of the vision of ourselves as ...

How the Church can reasonably respond to same-sex marriage

Christian Ethics

Well-known pastor and author Rob Bell recently stated that he now supports same-sex marriage. Odyssey Networks posts a new interview of him explaining this new viewpoint: “What we’re seeing right ...

Libertarian Perspectives on War and Peace

Libertarianism

At The Libertarian Standard, Anthony Gregory writes an incredible essay commemorating (or in shame of, alternatively) the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. The piece covers libertarian perspectives on war ...

There can be no necessary evil

Media

We can thank Randy England, author of Free is Beautiful: Why Catholics Should be Libertarian, for this great little video on Romans 3:8 and government.

The Rand Paul Filibuster in 2 Minutes

Media

Anthony Gregory explains the significance of the Rand Paul Filibuster in two minutes: This is an exciting time for liberty, so major props to Rand Paul for taking this stand ...

LCC joins the Clear Skies Initiative

Announcements

I am pleased to announce that LibertarianChristians.com is now a member of the Clear Skies Initiative, sponsored by Muslims4Liberty.org. The Clear Skies Initiative is a broad coalition of individuals and ...

Power Couple Religion and Politics File for Divorce! (News of the Week/Month, Feb. 10, 2013 Edition)

News

I have not done a news post in some time, so I have a lot of links piled up for you today. I think you will find many of them ...

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