History

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 ...

Erasmus on the Evils of War

History

“Since we see that there is hardly ever any respite from wars, which normally arise from the ambition or anger of princes and thus are usually fought for the worst ...

An Injury to Civilization

Book Reviews

Review of Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began (Walker & Co., 2012), vii + 392 pgs., hardcover, $30. The 100th anniversary of ...

Being a Constitutionalist is Not Enough

American History

Being a constitutionalist is not enough; being a libertarian is.

Sow It Everywhere

Book Reviews

Review of Martin A. Lee, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific (Scribner, 2012), vii + 519 pgs., hardcover. Although I don’t use marijuana for medical, recreational, ...

The Significance of the Austrian School and Ludwig von Mises

Economics

This is the first essay in LibertarianChristians.com series “Essentials of Austrian Economics.” Throughout this series, we will explore important economic concepts and why they are crucial to an understanding of ...

From God or the Sword

Economics

This article is by libertarian luminary Frank Chodorov, excerpted from chapter two of The Rise and Fall of Society. Is the State ordered in the nature of things? The classical ...

Copperhead: Ron Maxwell at his finest

History

This review was featured on LewRockwell.com on July 11, 2013. Finding a movie about war with no actual battle scenes is pretty rare. A rarer find is a war movie ...

Adultery and the State–Moral Courage or Moral Busybodies?

History

The legislature of the state of Colorado recently passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill to repeal an antiquated state law that criminalized adultery. The only thing worse ...

Our Disordered Lives

Culture

By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the July 1973 issue of The ...

Alexander Campbell, Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb: A Nineteenth-Century Anti-War Triumvirate

History

A shorter version of this essay was presented at the 2013 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. Alexander Campbell, Tolbert Fanning, and David Lipscomb had three things in ...

The Politics of the Millennium

History

Murray Rothbard wrote the following article for Liberty Magazine in 1990. It provides an interesting summary and perspective on the implications of millennialism upon the political landscape. Though this comes ...

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