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.

Speedlinking Friday

News

Much has happened this week, so much to talk about! Unlike last week I will not stick to a single topic, although many hover around Obamunism since that is on ...

Unprecedented Obama Lust

Media

The media spent 35 times more airtime covering Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration than the 2004 inauguration. Given, 2004 was an incumbent win, but even so this is entirely unprecedented in ...

Ron Paul on the Morning Joe

Media

Ron Paul was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and he fielded questions about the state of the economy from about five different people at once. It is incredible to ...

Was J.R.R. Tolkien a Libertarian?

President's Blog

Could J.R.R. Tolkien, most famous for his splendid Lord of the Rings Trilogy, have been a libertarian? Well, strictly speaking one must say no; the term was hardly around at ...

Obama Orders First Murder

News

Congratulations are in order for President Barack Obama, who today has successfully completed the common rite of passage of Presidents: ordering his first murder. See folks, don’t forget that morality ...

Speedlinking Friday – Intellectual Property

Economics

Today I would like to invite you to read a bit about intellectual property. Last week, Jeff Tucker of the Mises Institute published a book review of Against Intellectual Monopoly ...

New Site: Libertarian Papers

News

Just launched today: Libertarian Papers, an online peer-reviewed journal freely available to all! It looks fantastic. The editors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and includes such luminaries as ...

Why Conservatives Should Love Obama

Media

After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers to the economy and national security that Bush has – ...

5 Predictions for 2009

Economics

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is uncertain and that much has yet to transpire. But now ...

GW’s Presidential Review

News

Over at The Humble Libertarian, Sir Messamore has put together an excellent post-mortem of the last eight years of accomplishments from the Oval Office. Twice, the so-called conservative wing of ...

Give Me Liberty

History

Continuing in our series of posts leading up to the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, it seems appropriate to hearken back to ...

Speedlinking and fun stuff for January 16

Announcements

Friday is a day for linky goodness… Acting in a very timely manner with my post yesterday, Nature reports that scientists are getting in line for their own part of ...

Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

Announcements

I love economics. I know, it’s a little weird, but it’s the truth. Turns out I will be going to the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises ...

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” Book Review

Book Reviews

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is one of my favorite books of late, I gave a copy to my father for Christmas and to the Associate Dean of Engineering ...

Supreme Court will take Austin Case

Events

I live in Austin, Texas, arguably one of the strangest places in the United States (I would also add it’s one of the coolest places as well, but that’s for ...

“Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce” Book Review

Book Reviews

A Book Review of Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night. Some book reviews that I write are rather long, primarily because they were originally written for a theology class or something similar. ...

How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

Book Reviews

I was first introduced to Roger Olson through his book Who Needs Theology?, which I read for one of my theology classes a few years ago (and I highly recommend ...

New Year’s Resolutions for a Libertarian and a Christian

Christian Worldview

In March of 2006, the freedom movement lost one of its great advocates – Harry Browne. He was the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate in both 1996 and 2000. He was ...

The Christmas Truce

History

In celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Peace… All those who know Him, rejoice in the Lord! Update: Incidentally, historian Stanley Weintraub has written an interesting book on ...

Dick Cheney Admits He is a War Criminal

Christian Ethics

In this exclusive ABC interview (transcript) Cheney does not outright say “I am a war criminal, please put cuffs on me,” but the implications are pretty clear. He knew about, ...

Top 10 Books for Christian Libertarians – Christmas 2008 Edition

Book Reviews

This post was featured on Lewrockwell.com on December 15, 2008, thanks to Tom Woods! Looking for that perfect last-minute gift for that special Christian Libertarian in your life? Here are ...

“Myths America Lives By” Book Review

American History

A review of Richard Hughes’s book Myths America Lives By. Richard Hughes’s seminal book can be roughly described as exploding the myths in the American national subconscious, but this does ...

Bush REGRETS the war now?

News

So, I have had an very taxing weekend and was unable to put up a new article. Hopefully I’ll get that done tomorrow. However, I did notice this in my ...

Interfaith Leaders of Detroit learn to play Grand Theft Auto

Christian Ethics

They seem so happy playing their little game, don’t they? Interfaith leaders lobby for auto aid | The Detroit News | detnews.com Responding to concerns from their followers, a dozen ...

The War Prayer

Media

Mark Twain wrote a short work in 1905 called The War Prayer in response to the American military intervention in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. This short film adaptation ...

Top 10 Websites and Blogs for Christian Libertarians

Libertarianism

Christians are becoming ever more aware of the corruption and deceit of their respective political leaders, but finding good material on the internet about libertarianism from a Christian perspective can ...

Book Review: Founding Faith, by Steven Waldman

Book Reviews

A book review of Founding Faith (subtitle: Providence, Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America) by Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief of BeliefNet.com. Introduction In Founding Faith, Steven Waldman sets ...

New Testament Theology of the State: Romans 13, Give Unto Caesar, and Other Bible Verses about Government

Christian Worldview

New Testament Theology of the State This paper was originally published on LewRockwell.com in September 2007 entitled, New Testament Theology of the State. In April 2008, it won the Best ...

Future Posts

Announcements

I started this blog a few weeks ago with the intention of spreading ideas about political and economic liberty from a Christian point of view. I have been compiling ideas ...

Introductory First Post

Announcements

Good evening. I intend this blog to be a place to post news items and thoughts regarding libertarian thinking, especially from a Christian’s perspective. It may take a while for ...

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