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

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 ...

Links for this Memorial Day

Christian Ethics

Laurence Vance and Bob Murphy report how the church has gone wacko in worship of the State rather than God: LewRockwell.com Blog: Temple Prostitution. Free Advice: Awkward Thoughts on Memorial ...

The First Edition of the Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival

News

The Holy Cause presents the first Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival today. A “Blog Carnival”  is essentially a brief “magazine”-style collection of articles, and there is some pretty great stuff in ...

How To Connect With Other Christian Libertarians

Libertarianism

Being a libertarian can be a little lonely sometimes, because although our numbers are growing we aren't quite *that* big yet. Christian libertarians are an even rarer breed, so its ...

Texas Senate Passes Concealed Carry on Campus Bill

News

Big news in Austin! Yesterday, the Texas Senate passed the bill that would allow concealed carry on university campuses in Texas. While I still have some issues with the government ...

Podcast on Private Security with Gil Guillory

Appearances

In a libertarian society, the production of security services would not come from the State, but security most certainly would be provided via private security agencies and arbitration services. But ...

Happy 110th Birthday, Friedrich von Hayek

News

If Hayek were alive today, we would be celebrating his 110th birthday today.

What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?

Christian Ethics

Yesterday was Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. Happy birthday, our heroic anti-war American muse. Here are some other articles of libertarian Christian interest that came up this weekend… Bob Murphy writes ...

Resources

New to LCI? Start Here If you are new to LibertarianChristians.com, we encourage you to start with a few of our best articles describing who we are, what we believe, ...

Obama’s First 100 Days: Madmen, Blunders, Death Defined

News

The score thus far: 100 days down, 1361 to go. Then we get another dictator. Greeeeeaaaat. :-/ I’d like to highlight briefly a few articles of note to commemorate history ...

My ASC 2009 talk is now available!

Appearances

The presentation that I gave at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 became available on Mises.org today. The title, as you may recall, is “Science and the Free Market: How Government Distorts ...

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