The news has been abuzz with the “Signal Gate” scandal, with various sources reporting the story and offering a range of reasons to be outraged. Depending on the news source, ...
“There is no authority except from God.” That’s what Romans 13:1 says—but understanding how God’s authority works is just as important as acknowledging it. The recent blog post “God-Given” by ...
In this essay, I will tell the story of my evolving views on libertarianism, specifically as they interacted with my evolving views on Christianity. The quick version is that I ...
I was raised in a loving, compassionate, and stable Christian Science family. Growing up in this faith meant existing on the fringes of mainstream Christianity. Even within this outlier denomination, ...
Not everyone is born a libertarian, and even those who were must come to it on their own terms. We believe in the importance of hearing the stories of others, ...
I became a Christian when I was 15. Born and baptized Catholic, my parents went to church out of a sense of obligation. We were, in the purest sense of ...
What is nationalism and what does it mean to be a nationalist? Under nationalism, a ruling government uses its authority to promote and protect a nation’s identity behind a common ...
Not everyone is born a libertarian, and even those who were must come to it on their own terms. We believe in the importance of hearing the stories of others, ...
Not everyone is born a libertarian, and even those who were must come to it on their own terms. We believe in the importance of hearing the stories of others, ...
Not everyone is born a libertarian, and even those who were must come to it on their own terms. We believe in the importance of hearing the stories of others, ...
Series Introduction Not everyone is born a libertarian, and even those who were must come to it on their own terms. We believe in the importance of hearing the stories ...
The actions of October 7th, 2023, brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into the cultural zeitgeist in a way that it hasn’t been for a long time. While acts of terror from ...
Thank You for Helping Us Exceed Our $15,000 Matching Challenge! As we step into 2025 with excitement and purpose, we want to pause and express our deepest gratitude to each ...
This recent election has stoked the fires of libertarian discourse to new highs. One side of the movement thinks the other is selling out principles for what amounts to be ...
Author Note: The following article is copied, with slight modifications, from an article I wrote for my church blog. I didn’t use the words “libertarian” or “anarchy” in this, because ...
Edward Snowden’s name will always be associated with one defining act—blowing the whistle on the United States government’s mass surveillance program. At the time of this writing, he is still ...
America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, was on its way to self-destruction the moment it began. This is not the fault of the left, of ...
The Problem with Romans 13 Romans 13:1-7 is one of the most difficult passages in the New Testament. For starters, there is a long and convoluted interpretive history of not ...
I started taking my faith seriously when I was 15, and, in a stereotypically Lutheran fashion, immediately began reading my Bible. It became obvious to me after one reading of ...
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. He was immediately mocked by Washington insiders. The mainstream media treated his campaign as a ridiculous human interest story, ...
A History of Libertarian Toleration of Intolerance In 2008, when the Ron Paul Revolution was heating up and libertarian ideas were getting the widest hearing they had received since perhaps ...
In the wake of the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a large number of Americans have wondered if he survived solely “by the grace ...
Transaction costs are a rather nebulous concept in economics — they have many definitions and there is no single settled meaning. From a high level, transaction costs are simply barriers ...
Do most Americans still believe in God? Though polls continue to show most of us say we do, they also reveal far fewer claim to than ever before, and substantially ...
Libertarians are known for their embrace of the philosophy of individualism. We support merit-based selection over group identity as the criteria for determining who gets a coveted job or college ...
Common sense isn’t so common anymore. A friend pointed this out to me. We discussed the concept at length, but we could not come to an agreement. I kept thinking ...
Libertarian Christians tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how to persuade other Christians to become libertarians. We see people in our churches and families overcome by an ...
Introduction The Judaic prohibition on pigs has puzzled scholars for centuries — so much so that certain atheist writers, such as Christopher Hitchens, have used this prohibition as evidence against ...
I’m not an Objectivist, because I’m a Christian and those labels ultimately conflict. However, Ayn Rand’s critique of Christianity is clarifying and taking it seriously has changed my life and ...
The Text of Romans 13:1-7 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by ...
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