The Christian Obligation to the Poor: Do No Harm
Christians are called to aid those less fortunate. I think that we often mistakenly take this calling as merely material. Rather than thinking about helping those who are “poor in ...
Christians are called to aid those less fortunate. I think that we often mistakenly take this calling as merely material. Rather than thinking about helping those who are “poor in ...
I had never heard of Ellis Washington until I saw his recent WorldNetDaily article titled “Nation-building? No, Christian-building” and did some digging. Besides being a weekend commentator for WorldNetDaily, Washington ...
I am very happy to announce that Laurence Vance will be joining LCC as a guest contributor and syndicated columnist. Laurence is well-known to many LCC readers already for his ...
Blayne Bennett from Students for Liberty asked me to write a short article describing what it means to be a Christian libertarian, and this piece was the result. What do ...
After reading an article I wrote (Palm Sunday and Politics), a friend of mine told me he thought I espoused a sort of dualistic view of Christian life. As if ...
My good friend Stephan Kinsella, who is not a Christian, recently attended an event with great relevance to our time and situation within the church today. He had the following ...
“Why is it that we see men willing to sacrifice property, the comforts of home, the sweets of the domestic and family relationship, undergo privations and sorrows, suffer hunger, and ...
On this day, not-so-many years ago, over 200,000 people died because an evil man thought it would be politically useful. Now, if I left it at that, no one I ...
There are a lot of changes happening on the tech-side of LCC right now. Some are small (things you’ll never see), some are medium (like moving the Contact Page under ...
I recently received an email from David Lampo, Publications Director of the Cato Institute, regarding a Christian libertarian’s viewpoint on gay rights, marriage, and government intervent. Here is his original ...
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. War and Peace and Anna Karenina have inspired millions over the last century. Less well-known about ...
Originally authored by Leonard Read, the following dialogue is imagined to have taken place while dying on a battlefield near the 38th Parallel in Korea. You could easily replace Korea ...
By Edmund Opitz. The church plays an important role in human life. It was once the unwritten rule in polite society that two topics have no place in civilized conversation; ...
By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of this is natural, due to limited knowledge; much of it ...
It’s back! This is the twelfth installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, presented by LibertarianChristians.com. Many apologies for how long it took to get this out, but as ...
If a stranger told you he’s an evangelical Christian who believes homosexuality is a sin and that the Holy Bible is the inerrant word of God, which political label would ...
It’s one thing to consider homosexuality a sin, it is entirely another to consider outlawing the practice of homosexuality. Homosexual individuals have just as much a right to behave in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many Christians believe that paying taxes is fulfilling the Biblical command to show compassion to the poor. We just need to "render to Caesar" and Caesar will do the right ...
LCC reader Skinner has an interesting post on his blog about Maundy Thursday (that’s today). Surf over to his page and check it out when you have about 10 minutes ...
Tom Woods and Laurence Vance are two excellent examples of Christian libertarians, so I am delighted to share a few links that involve both of them today in follow-up to ...
Libertarian Christians could learn something from our Jewish friends if we would pay attention. I had never heard of Rabbi Daniel Lapin before the Austrian Scholars Conference of 2009, but ...
If you were to believe the Wikipedia entry on libertarian Christianity, you might think that there is truly a significant difference between those who say they are "Christian libertarians" and ...
First off, congrats to Baroness_Fel for writing the 100th comment on LCC (and on the 50th post, no less), in the Washington to the Rescue post! That’s a lot of ...
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 ...
LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Scott Ritsema of CivicsNews.com to write our first-ever guest post. Scott is the editor of CivicsNews.com and the author of The Way, The Truth, and ...
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 ...
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, ...
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