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Ep 292: Decriminalizing Prostitution: Can Christians Support it?

Christian Worldview

Summary – Decriminalizing Prostitution: Can Christians Support it? In this episode, Kerry Baldwin guest hosts and interviews Melissa Broudo. Broudo is the co-founder and co-director of the Sharmus Outlaw Advocacy ...

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Ep 290: Naked Empire: Scott Horton Exposes American Interventionism

American History

Naked Empire: Scott Horton Exposes of American Interventionism Summary Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, joins Dr. Norman Horn to discuss war and the U.S Government’s ...

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Ep 289: Honest Scales and Balances: Ben Lewis and the Christian View of Bitcoin

Christian Worldview

Honest Scales and Balances: Ben Lewis and the Christian View of Bitcoin Summary Libertarian Christian Ben Lewis joins Doug Stuart to discuss a Christian view of Bitcoin and monetary policy. ...

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God and War in Ukraine

Christian Worldview

Truth is the first casualty of war. The current war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine is not an exception. There are no exceptions. Nonetheless, people—including many Christians—are choosing sides ...

David Theroux, In Memoriam

Christian Worldview

Today we honor the life and legacy of our dear friend David Theroux, who left this mortal coil to be with our Lord Jesus on April 23, 2022. He passed ...

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God is Sovereign Over the Nations including Russia and Ukraine

Christian Worldview

God is sovereign over the nations? On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded the country of Ukraine. Since that time, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been killed. Motivated by ...

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Conflicting Beliefs on Romans 13: Why We Still Disagree

Christian Worldview

If anyone wasn’t already aware how heated the ongoing debate is over conflicting beliefs on Romans 13, 2021 certainly highlighted it. Despite endless debate, many everyday Christians maintain a rather ...

Rabbi Hillel the Elder, the Credit Crunch, and the Bailout

Christian Ethics

It’s not too difficult to give a Christian argument against government bailouts of any form, but have you ever heard a Jewish argument against it? Here’s an article from the ...

Of Pilgrims and Communism

Christian Worldview

As people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we rightly express gratitude for the divine providence that sustains all of us. The iconography of this American holiday is ...

Simple Arguments Against the Iraq War

Christian Worldview

On the eve of the exit of President Bush, it seems appropriate to review what will most likely be the lasting legacy of this President – the Iraq War. The ...

The Commands of God versus the State

Christian Worldview

A more baseless assumption, one more in direct conflict with God’s teaching, was never made by man, than the idea that when the civil authority commands the Christian to do ...

The real Christian Nation

Christian Worldview

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

All Nations are “Under God”

Christian Worldview

Laurence Vance’s article on the pledge of allegiance elicited an excellent discussion from the LCC community. I’d like to perform my own little “twist” to his point about a nation being “under ...

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Is there a Christian Immigration Policy?

Christian Worldview

Prompted by the distasteful, immoral, and un-American advice of Vice President Kamala Harris toward would-be immigrants, I was inspired to write an op-ed recently for Real Clear Religion about Christian ...

“The Son Of Man Is Not Come To Destroy Men’s Lives, But To Save Them”

Christian Worldview

This guest post comes to us from Greg Cheney. Greg lives in Alaska with his wife, Kari, and their twelve children. You can visit his Christian blog at www.hislawislove.com. Stop ...

Should Christians Call on the State to End Gun Violence?

Christian Ethics

This is a guest post by Kollin Fields. Kollin is an Adjunct Professor of History, and a Ph.D. candidate in American intellectual history and political philosophy. His essays have appeared ...

The Person and His Society

Christian Worldview

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the January 1981 edition of The Freeman. He is the author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. ...

Can Christians Serve Two Masters?

Christian Worldview

“No man can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24). The fine print at the bottom of the website where I signed up to receive some religious newsletters read: “From time to ...

When Christians Love Political Power More Than People

Christian Worldview

… the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “I will give it all ...

Postmodernist deconstruction and the “New Thing”

Christian Worldview

Isaiah 43:19: Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the ...

Three Reasons To Thank God For Globalization

Christian Worldview

“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” — Matthew 24:14 There are ...

Who Is My Brother’s Keeper?

Christian Worldview

“The day when we decide that the Government is our brother’s keeper, that is the day the spirit of compassion has been lost.” —Herbert Hoover, 1949 If you are not ...

Is Jesus killing America? No, Jesus is life.

Christian Worldview

Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise ...

Turning the other cheek

Appreciating Jesus’ Teaching on the Benefits of Turning the Other Cheek

Christian Ethics

The Gospel of Matthew was probably written in the last decades of the 1st century A.D. after the fall of Jerusalem. The traditional author Matthew, also called Levi, was a ...

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.

Jesus was an Anti-Nationalist

Christian Worldview

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament ...

Violence Will Not Save Us

Christian Worldview

As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are in agreement: the world cannot be fundamentally changed for the ...

Government and Political Authority

Christian Worldview

In my experience, many Christians fail to carefully define their terms when talking about government and political authority—and this leads to a lot of arbitrary reasoning. I shall seek to ...

Where Christian Libertarians Part Ways with Ayn Rand

Christian Worldview

Christian theology begins with a creative process, which God himself executes and deems good. From there, filling and subduing his creation with the beneficial and the beautiful, particularly to bring ...

God And Money: Three Radical Ideas

Book Reviews

Jesus Christ enjoyed the greatest privilege imaginable, and yet he did not hoard it for himself. Instead, he lovingly sacrificed himself and his privilege for the sake of others. From ...

Jesus Shows Us What a Truly Free Human Looks Like

Christian Worldview

Scottish theologian Stephen Neill was excited and challenged by the story Christianity told about humanity. As a missionary, he spent many years in India before returning to Britain where he ...

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