History

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Events

Why is it that followers of the Prince of Peace are so often the quickest to beat the drums of war? And why do so many think that “love your ...

The Nativity Means the End of Empire

History

“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” – Jesus of Nazareth to his imitator Paul of Tarsus Around the world this season, humans of every ...

The Global Populist Revolt and the Church

History

2016 will go down in the history books as a watershed year for world politics. Between the stunning Brexit vote that rocked the globalist cabal, the rising national populist movements ...

The West’s Deadly Speech Pathology

Culture

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Go to any western liberal arts university class and you’ll hear the choir ...

Libertarian Impulses in Early Christianity and Contemporary Theology

Christian Worldview

Does Christian history and theology shun libertarian ideas? Of course not. In fact, Jamin Hubner argues that we can find libertarian impulses even among early Christians. Listen in to this ...

Stones Cry Out: How Jesus Ends the State

Culture

This guest post is from Christians For Liberty 2016 Conference speaker David Gornoski, and originally appeared on FEE.org. Warning: The following is an anthropological account of the origins of the ...

Law Has Become the Anonymous Violence of the Crowd

Christian Worldview

If black lives matter to you, you wouldn’t use violence to punish nonviolent behaviors. As the late Philando Castile’s mother said, “He lived by the law, he died by the ...

LCI at ISFLC 2016

Announcements

I am pleased to announce that the Libertarian Christian Institute will be hosting a breakout session at the International Students For Liberty Conference 2016 in Washington, D.C. next month. The ...

Introducing the Libertarian Christian Institute

Announcements

In late November 2008, I decided to start a website dedicated to explaining the connections between Christian theology and libertarian theory...

I used to think I was a social conservative…

Culture

I received an excellent question today from a new reader whom we will call D., and I thought it was so great that it would be worth sharing with you: ...

The Christmas Truce, Then and Now

History

Today, Christmas Eve 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas during World War 1. On that remarkable day, soilders from all sides of the war – French, British, Scottish, ...

When Horror Took a Holiday: Remembering the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Truce

History

This Christmas Eve marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce, when French, British, Scottish, and German soldiers unexpectedly laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas together. It was a ...

The Defective Faith-Based Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson

Book Reviews

George W. Bush was not the first president to have a “faith-based” foreign policy. Most people know that Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the U.S. president from 1913 to 1921. Some ...

The Bible is a Voice to the Oppressed

History

Here is a great quote from Rob Bell (via azspot), with a generous hat-tip to our friend Bonnie Kristian. “Most of the Bible is a history told by people living ...

The Heroic Anti-War Baptist Preacher Robert Hall

History

English Baptist minister Robert Hall (1764-1831) was the namesake and youngest child of fourteen born to a Baptist minister. One website recounts his life thusly: He was an accomplished theologian ...

Renewing the True Patriot Dream

History

Texas House Representative David Simpson delivered the following speech on October 8, 2014 at a Students For Liberty Event in Houston. This text was originally published at the SFL website. ...

The Great and (Un)Holy War

History

One would think that if there is any group of people that would be opposed to war it would be Christians. After all, they claim to worship the Prince of ...

Nuclear Christians

History

In a recent article of mine about Christians apologists for the state, its military, and its wars, I mentioned, for the first time I believe, the term “nuclear Christian.” I ...

Slavery in the Bible

History

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 ...

The Old Cause

American History

This guest post is by C.Jay Engel of The Reformed Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. I have read a good deal of all that Murray ...

Invading Iraq was wrong, and it’s wrong to do it again

History

This guest post is by Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. The Insanity of Interventionism If insanity can be defined as ...

WATCH: Saving the Children and the Story of Nicholas Winton

History

I was first told the story of Sir Nicholas Winton a few years ago by Lawrence Reed of the Foundation for Economic Education. Winton was a stock broker in England ...

Hope for the Dead, Hope for the Living

Christian Worldview

Two articles came to my attention today that are well worth reading. The first comes from Judge Andrew Napolitano as an Easter reflection called Hope for the Dead. He suggests ...

War, Empire, and the Military

History

Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy (Vance Publications, 2014), 528 pgs. These essays, although organized under ...

Habeas Corpus in America

Book Reviews

Review of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror by Anthony Gregory. Cambridge University Press and the Independent Institute, 2013. Anthony ...

The Taste of War

Book Reviews

Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (The Penguin Press, 2012), xxii + 634 pgs.. I was intrigued by this statement ...

Rosa Parks Revisited

Culture

Republicans are paying more attention to what they tweet after their latest attempt to pander to blacks to try and get more of their votes backfired. Sunday, December 1, was ...

Erasmus on the Just War

History

“The most just of wars brings with it a train of evils—if indeed any war can really be called just.” ~ Erasmus In the first of my articles on Erasmus ...

Erasmus on Soldiers

History

“Who could possibly tell how many hardships these idiots of soldiers put up with in their camps? And they deserve worse just for being willing to put up with them.” ...

Erasmus on Christianity and War: Christian War Fever

History

“I simply admit that I have written some rather distasteful things for the purpose of frightening Christians away from the insanity of war, for I observed that the largest part ...

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