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.

Author: Dr. Norman Horn

The Economics of Dallas Buyers Club

Economics

From EconStories, the makers of the “Fear the Boom and Bust” and “Fight of the Century”, comes a new web show all about economic in popular culture. Hence the title: ...

The Conversation: A Short Film about Social Principles

Media

Enjoy this great video from the Foundation for Harmony and Prosperity on the basic social principles of human flourishing. While not explicitly Christian, it is easy to see how it ...

Friday Challenge: Spot the theological problem

Media

It’s Friday, let’s play a game! Today’s challenge is to spot the theological problem in this song: Okay, I’ll give you the lyrics just to help out… Praise the Lord ...

Habeas Corpus in America

Book Reviews

Review of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror by Anthony Gregory. Cambridge University Press and the Independent Institute, 2013. Anthony ...

For to Us a Child is Born: Reflections on Isaiah 9:6-7

Theology

Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV 1984): 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Theology

Christians carry around much of their theology within the songs that we sing. That is why the content of our church music is so important. You may forget that sermon ...

Top 10 Libertarian (and Christian) Books for 2013

Book Reviews

Every year, I try to highlight some of the best recent and classic books about Christianity, libertarianism, and the books addressing both at the same time. Last year I was ...

Government and the Definition of Marriage

Appearances

Two weeks have passed since I traveled to Virginia to debate at Patrick Henry College. I think it is about time to give you an account of what happened! First, ...

How the State Contributes to Child Abuse

Culture

LCC reader Andrew recently asked me, “Norman, in your opinion, how would child abuse like the recent incident where a baby was found nearly starved by his lazy parents be ...

Government and Marriage Debate: November 16, 2013

Announcements

I will be participating in a debate this Saturday at 7:00 pm EST (November 16, 2013) at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. The debate is hosted by the Wilberforce ...

How critical is a Christian Worldview to Libertarianism?

Christian Worldview

Today I received an email from the Christian Post to comment on a recent speech by Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics scholar Jay Richards. Apparently, Mr. Richards argues that ...

Sticking to Your Principles (and other life lessons)

Christian Ethics

LCC reader Ron emailed me recently about my post: “Should we hold all things in common?” He writes: I share your opinion about Social Security. I was ordained into ministry ...

Libertarianism, the Church, and the Millennial Generation

Appearances

Will the millennial generation make a difference in the church? Will the older generation partner with us and encourage us to be bold and courageous, and to speak truth to ...

give to caesar bible verses about government

Ministers make a difference

President's Blog

A friend relayed to me a remarkable quote from a recent sermon at his congregation: “And if I thought that you could substantially change human behavior by laws then I ...

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 ...

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