Libertarianism

Category: Libertarianism

From Rush Limbaugh to the Sermon on the Mount: A Journey Through Politics, Economics, and Faith

Libertarianism

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 ...

Ep 189: Private Charity is Better than Government Welfare with Gerard Casey

Economics

In this episode I talk with Dr. Gerard Casey, professor emeritus at University College Dublin and associate scholar at the Mises Institute, about charity and welfare. Dr. Casey argues that ...

Episode 397: Exploring Biblical Stewardship and Justice, with Cal Beisner

Economics

Doug Stuart welcomes back Dr. Cal Beisner, founder and national spokesman of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Dr. Beisner discusses his book Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate ...

The Way of the Outlier: A Search for Truth in Faith and Politics

Libertarianism

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 ...

Rediscovering the Church’s Prophetic Mission Against War and Empire

Libertarianism

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, ...

Rejecting the Empire: Why My Faith Led Me to Liberty

Libertarianism

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 ...

Ep 184: Liberty, Authority, and the Political Spectrum

Libertarianism

Ep 184: Liberty, Authority, and the Political Spectrum *Streamyard defaulted to my computer microphone and not my recording microphone. I apologize for the terrible sound quality. In this episode I ...

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.

Why Christianity and Nationalism are Incompatible

Christian Worldview

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 ...

A Reformed Path to Libertarian Anarchism

Libertarianism

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 ...

I Found My People! Faith, Race, and the Road to Libertarianism

Libertarianism

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 ...

Anarchist Anabaptist: Cody Cook’s Journey to Faith and Libertarianism

Libertarianism

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 ...

Ep 180: Jesus and Capitalism

Libertarianism

Ep 180: Jesus and Capitalism In this episode, I discuss the problem of unclear economic thinking in Biblical scholarship. Terms like ‘capitalism’ and ‘socialism’ are often left undefined by the ...

“I Have Had Enough!” Rhesa Browning’s Libertarian Christian Origin Story

Libertarianism

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 ...

No, Christians shouldn’t give unconditional support to Israel

Libertarianism

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 ...

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Starting 2025 Strong with LCI

Announcements

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 ...

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Balancing Liberty: Purity vs. Pragmatism

Libertarianism

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 ...

Christ’s Kingship in a Politically Divided World

Christian Worldview

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 ...

Privacy for Sale

Culture

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 ...

Democracy Inevitably Leads to Totalitarianism

Libertarianism

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 ...

Submit to the Authorities? What 1 Peter 2:13-17 Claims About Political Power

Christian Worldview

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 ...

Ep 160: I Can’t Support Trump or Harris

Libertarianism

Ep 160: I Can’t Support Trump or Harris  In this episode I talk about the reasons why I can’t support either Trump or Harris, why America is Babylon, and why ...

No, The New Testament Does Not Teach Socialism

Libertarianism

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 ...

Stuck Between Iraq and a Dumb Place

History

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, ...

Ep 158: The Chase Oliver Interview with Chase Oliver

Libertarianism

Ep 158: The Chase Oliver Interview with Chase Oliver This episode is a recent replay of a Greenroom conversation that I moderated between libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver and Jacob ...

Ep 153: Atheists for Liberty with Cherry Teresa

Libertarianism

Ep 153: Atheists for Liberty with Cherry Teresa  In this episode I talk with Cherry Teresa, vice president of the organization Atheists for Liberty. We discuss the organization, why Cherry ...

Neither Jew Nor Greek: Why Ethnic Identitarianism Isn’t Libertarian or Christian

Libertarianism

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 ...

Ep 379: Nobody is a Real Libertarian

Libertarianism

Summary – Nobody is a Real Libertarian Doug Stuart is joined by guests Alex Bernardo and Cody Cook for an engaging conversation that spans the spectrum of libertarian electoral strategies, ...

Ep 145: Liberty is the Solution with Trenton Hale

Libertarianism

Ep 145: Liberty is the Solution with Trenton Hale  In this episode I talk to Trenton Hale. Trenton is a young libertarian activist and writer who specializes in foreign policy, ...

Ep 378: The Mob vs. Project 2025, with Jim Babka

Libertarianism

Summary – The Mob vs. Project 2025, with Jim Babka In this episode of the Libertarian Christian Podcast, host Doug Stuart sits down with Jim Babka to dissect the allure ...

This Precarious Life

Libertarianism

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 ...

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