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.

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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 ...

Jim Wallis lambastes John McCain for military adventurism, but not Obama?

Christian Worldview

I am not positive at all toward Jim Wallis’s left-leaning positions on government intervention in the economy and social issues. Nonetheless, he is completely correct in his criticism of John ...

War in the forest

Militarism is the Devil’s Work

President's Blog

Joel Poindexter writes: The Great Commission, as described in the gospel of Matthew, has been perverted by these Right-Wing warmongers. It’s gone from a mission to “go and make disciples ...

The Politics of the Millennium

History

Murray Rothbard wrote the following article for Liberty Magazine in 1990. It provides an interesting summary and perspective on the implications of millennialism upon the political landscape. Though this comes ...

Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Politics

If you have never read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity, and close friend to J.R.R. Tolkien), then you are missing ...

Catholic Theologians Say Prostitution Should Be Legal

Christian Worldview

This guest article is by Ryan McMaken, and was originally posted at LewRockwell.com. I refer of course to the Catholic theologians known as Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine, both ...

The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom

Book Reviews

Book review of The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom by Laurence Vance. Vance Publications, 2012. Orlando, FL. $9.95 at Amazon.com. To many newcomers to libertarian ideas – ...

Deck the Halls with Macro Follies

Media

The inimitable EconStories gang, which includes the great John Papola, has just released their newest creation just in time for Christmas: Deck the Halls with Macro Follies. It lampoons the ...

give to caesar bible verses about government

An Ecumenical Babel

Book Reviews

Book review of Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church’s Social Witness by Jordan J. Ballor. Christian’s Library Press, 2010. Grand Rapids, MI. Many Christians go throughout their lives ...

Petraeus and the moral bankruptness of social conservatism

President's Blog

I think it is rather funny how two major golden boys in the “Conservative Idol” game have been taken down by infidelity in the past few weeks: Dinesh D’Souza and ...

The Magic of the Free Market: Pencils

Economics

Check out this amazing short film by the Competitive Enterprise Institute based on “I, Pencil” by Leonard Read: The free market is a beautiful thing.

Ron Paul bids farewell to Congress

Politics

Today, Ron Paul gave his farewell address to the U.S. House of Representatives. Here is the text of his speech. Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time ...

Why Are Christians Warmongers? (News of the Week, November 11, 2012 Edition)

News

Recapping interesting and significant news stories and media from the past weeks… Chuck Baldwin asks some very pointed questions to evangelicals everywhere about war and their faith. To those evangelicals ...

Obama wins, celebrates by bombing another country

News

You think I’m kidding. Just hours after his re-election acceptance speech, it looks as though Obama ordered another drone strike over Yemen. Quoting the Huffington Post: On Wednesday morning, as ...

News of the Week, November 5th, 2012 Edition: Elect a Super-Villain to be President?

Politics

Recapping the interesting and significant news, articles, and media of the past few weeks… One of my favorite guys at the Cato Institute, Gene Healy, has a new “sequel” out ...

The Logic of the Conservative Electorate

Politics

I had an interesting conversation with a hard-core “conservative” Christian a few days ago on Facebook, and I thought I ought to share it with you. I’m not going to ...

End the War on Kidneys! (and other News of the Week)

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. There is a terrible war on kidneys the government is waging, and it has to stop! LCC writer ...

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