Romans 13: A Reformed View of Stateless Civil Governance
The Reformed theological tradition historically holds to an interpretation of Romans 13 that, in its basic outline, is compatible with libertarian …
The Reformed theological tradition historically holds to an interpretation of Romans 13 that, in its basic outline, is compatible with libertarian …
What is libertarianism? In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick famously defines libertarianism as a social philosophy committed to …
This is a guest post by Caleb Furlough. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University in Human Factors …
Americans haven’t changed much in their approach to abortion over the past fifty years. Since Roe v Wade, conventional arguments …
Deuteronomy is a puzzling book. It’s a marvelous ‘farewell sermon’ by Moses before Joshua takes up command, but the literary …
Echoing George Wallace, it has been said many times that there is not a dime’s worth of difference between liberals …
Lawmakers in the House and Senate in my state of Florida have proposed two bills (HB 717 & SB 774) …
Last week at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C., Elise Amyx of the Institute for Faith, Work, …
Prompted by the distasteful, immoral, and un-American advice of Vice President Kamala Harris toward would-be immigrants, I was inspired to …
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the January 1981 edition of The Freeman. He is the author of The Libertarian …
This is a guest post written by Todd Lewis, who graduated from Malone University with a degree in history and …
This guest post was written by Alan Krinsky. In the fifth chapter of the second book of his Two Treatises …
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor …
Jonathan McIntosh (Ph.D., University of Dallas) is a Fellow of Humanities at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, where …
The War on Drugs was instigated by the U.S. federal government in 1970, but the policy of drug prohibition has …
In my experience, many Christians fail to carefully define their terms when talking about government and political authority—and this leads …
Editor’s Note: This very long post, perhaps the longest single piece we have ever published, was written by an LCI …
Christian theology begins with a creative process, which God himself executes and deems good. From there, filling and subduing his …
Christians are becoming ever more aware of the corruption and deceit of their respective political leaders, but finding good material …
Scottish theologian Stephen Neill was excited and challenged by the story Christianity told about humanity. As a missionary, he spent …
LCI has been creating great evergreen content for years, but we wanted to regularly bring you commentary on what’s happening …
The human heart has a natural orientation toward liberty. We are built this way, regardless of our religion or ethnicity; …
Does society always and in every case break down to atomistic individuals?
This guest post is by Kollin Fields. Kollin is a Ph.D student in American intellectual history and political philosophy. His …
Someone else having a billion dollars does no harm to you. It very likely makes their life harder – not …
Tim Keller recently published an article entitled, “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory.” His article is a sort of apologia for his conception of “biblical justice” and its relationship to the social justice conversation. While we could likely agree with some of his sentiments, other things he says are just plain wrong. His characterizations of libertarianism as being in conflict with biblical justice warrant a response.
Our dear friend Larry Reed, an advisor to LCI and former President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), recently …
The main point of Austin Rogers’ “Christians, Put Not Your Trust in Judges” is both spot-on and biblically accurate. Christians …
This article was originally published on AIER.org I share a lot of the concerns and goals of those who describe …
We pride ourselves at LCI on providing great “evergreen” content for Christian libertarians across the world. Nonetheless, addressing what is …
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