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.

Christianity and War Audiobook Roundup #1

Announcements

Every once in a while, I will post a quick roundup of the latest podcasts so you can catch up at your convenience… As you can see below, there have ...

Podcast: The President’s Prayer

Appearances

This is the *tenth* installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. TEN podcasts may seem like a lot, but believe me, there’s plenty more Laurence Vance ...

Voltaire

History

I am currently browsing through a large volume of The Gospel Advocate, a Church of Christ newsletter that was published weekly through much of the 1800s. This blurb about that ...

Podcast: The Wicked Bible and the Wicked War

Appearances

This is the ninth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Thanks for being patient over the last few weeks while I have been busily working ...

Universal Health Care is the new Post Office

Economics

Cash for Clunkers made no sense whatsoever. The Climate-Change Bill was just moronic. Universal Health Care, though, is going to be the new Post Office — and Obama even has ...

Summer Reading – Top 10 books that you should drop everything to read now…

Book Reviews

Looking for some good summer reading, fellow Christian libertarians? I gave this list to a friend in mid-July (a reader of LCC, incidentally) when he asked what 10 books I ...

Podcast: The Warmonger’s Beatitudes and Humpty Dumpty Religion

Appearances

This is the eighth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Today I have two essays in store for you, including “The Warmonger’s Beatitudes” and “Humpty ...

Podcast: The Early Christian Attitude to War

Appearances

This is the seventh installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. I am particularly excited about today’s recording of “The Early Christian Attitude to War.” Vance ...

LP National Just Made Their Best Hiring Move EVER

News

Friends, in the past I have been critical of the Libertarian Party at the national level for trading principle for political expediency. I thought they did a poor job capitalizing ...

Podcast: Vicesimus Knox, Minister of Peace

Appearances

This is the sixth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Today’s reading is the essay entitled “Vicesimus Knox, Minister of Peace.” It dawned on me ...

Podcast: Are You a Christian Warmonger?

Appearances

This is the fifth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Today’s podcast covers the essay/quiz called “Are You a Christian Warmonger?” Make sure to have ...

Virtually unknown pub "Faith & Freedom" now available on Mises.org

History

Hardly anyone has ever heard the old circular Faith & Freedom, originally published in the 1950s by the early libertarians and Old Right. One of my new favorite authors, Edmund ...

Podcast: Spurgeon on Christian War Fever

Appearances

This is the fourth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Today’s essay is one of the longest essays in the book due to its extensive ...

New Testament Theology of the State (Video)

Media

I finally managed to play around with the video of my presentation of the New Testament Theology of the State paper (read here) at the UT-Austin Christian Scholars Forum 2008. ...

Podcast: Gott Mit Uns

Appearances

This is the third installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Today’s essay is entitled “Gott Mit Uns,” German for “God with us.” https://libertarianchristians.com/audio/lcc_vance_03.mp3 Right click ...

Podcast: Falwell’s Folly

Appearances

This is the second installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, covering the essay entitled “Falwell’s Folly.” https://libertarianchristians.com/audio/lcc_vance_02.mp3 Right click here to download the entire audio file. [13 minutes, ...

Are You a Revolutionary?

History

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution passed without one dissenting ...

Young Americans for Liberty launch new version of YALiberty.org

News

Young Americans for Liberty, the continuation of Students for Ron Paul, launched a new version of their flagship website www.yaliberty.org yesterday morning. It looks very sleek, even better than the ...

LP Texas Helps Defeat $1 Billion Scheme of Fake “Private Roads”

News

Over the past two days, the Libertarian Party of Texas has done a splendid job in saving Texans a truck-load of money from a scheme that fleeces taxpayers of their ...

Podcast: Christianity and War Part 1

Appearances

Today marks the release of the first installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast. As many of you know, Christianity and War is the work of Laurence Vance, who ...

Special Announcement: Audiobook of Vance’s "Christianity and War" Releases Today!

Announcements

If you listened to the most recent LCC Podcast, you already have heard the big news. But, for those who have not, Laurence Vance has given his blessing to me ...

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” Book Review

Book Reviews

Neil Postman's well-known book Amusing Ourselves to Death gives us a chilling reminder of how much the media we use on a regular basis affect our thought patterns. In particular, ...

Obama’s New Theocracy

News

David Theroux has two excellent blog posts at The Beacon that I want to commend to you. In the first, David tracks and documents how an bizarre religious fervor has ...

Podcast: Current Status of LCC

Announcements

There are so many great things going on here at LCC that I decided to do a short podcast rather than write it all out. Take  8 minutes and listen: ...

Barrel ‘monster’ gets student arrested

News

From the Police-arresting-people-for-stupid-reasons department… Barrel ‘monster’ gets student arrested – Weird news- msnbc.com. When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to ...

Paul Krugman: Stop Talking Please

News

If you have been following the news lately, you’ve likely heard a resurgence of the claim that Paul Krugman predicted the housing bubble and the ensuing economic catastrophe. Bill Anderson ...

“The Libertarian Theology of Freedom” Book Review

Book Reviews

Book Information: The Libertarian Theology of Freedom. Opitz, Edmund A. Tampa, FL: Hallberg Publishing Corporation, 1999. 160 pages. Only recently have I learned of Edmund Opitz, ordained Congregational minister and ...

Peter Schiff on the Daily Show

Media

Our cynical-comic pseudo-friend Jon Stewart had the heroic Peter Schiff on the Daily Show yesterday evening, and I thought the interview went pretty well. As some have mentioned already, typical ...

The Fall of Bureaucrash

Politics

Less than two weeks ago I wrote about how to connect with other libertarian Christians via the Internet. One of those ways I mentioned was Bureaucrash Social, a libertarian activist ...

My interview with MotorHome Diaries

Media

About a month ago I had the great pleasure of meeting Pete Eyre, Jason Talley, and Adam Mueller of the MotorHome Diaries at the South Austin Freehold with a few ...

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