This article is adapted from my Foreword to Cody Cook’s latest book, The Anarchist Anabaptist. You can get your copy here. I often give a lot of thought to the concept ...
“I didn’t have the VP tweeting ‘ordo amoris’ on my bingo card. We are so back.” That was Christian Nationalist influencer Eric Conn on X referring to a Fox News interview (and the fallout ...
These remarks were presented as a communion meditation at the O’Fallon Church of Christ on January 19, 2025. In October 2024, the World’s truthiest news source, the Babylon Bee, posted ...
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 ...
The fourth century church father Athanasius’ On the Incarnation is a Christian classic, read widely by Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox alike. In it, the bishop and theologian makes his ...
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 ...
Christians are having a lively debate discussing what kind of relationship they should have with the state or with the nations in which they live. On one side you have ...
Ancient Israel functioned without a monarchy from the time of the Exodus to the anointing of Saul as her first God-chosen king. Depending upon the much-debated date of the Exodus, ...
The Churches of Christ began as a pacifistic, anti-establishment collection of believers. Their initial founders, Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone formed this Anabaptist community intending to remove all creeds ...
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 ...
This article will cover what the Bible says about two overlapping subjects, money and trade. I define trade as two people exchanging goods or services either directly or through the ...
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 ...
One of the major themes in the Bible is God’s redemption of the nation of Israel. God made a promise of land to the sons of Abraham, but generations later ...
In Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies, New Testament scholars N.T. Wright and Michael F. Bird take on two major ...
In the 2005 documentary film Protocols of Zion, filmmaker Marc Levin explored the growth of antisemitic conspiracy theories after September 11th, such as the false (so patently false as to ...
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 ...
Emmanuel (God with us), Jesus looked into the hearts of religious and politically powerful men and then bluntly told them what he saw: a self-absorbed and spiritually dead ruling class, ...
Nuff Said is the second book by Tyrus (George Murdoch), the professional wrestler, actor, and witty regular on the Gutfeld! late night show. While his first book, 2022’s Just Tyrus: ...
Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination was the selection for the Libertarian Christian Institute’s first book club discussion. Register for future book club discussions here: https://libertarianchristians.com/bookclub/ Walter Brueggemann’s 1978 book The ...
The Beast in Revelation’s Wide Influence The book of Revelation has captured the imagination of Christians for a long time. Not only does it describe dramatic events in a visually ...
The Israel-Palestine vortex of human suffering that has flooded eyes on social media over the last weeks has been stupefying. As a result, many people have been rendered numb to ...
Progressive Christians are critical of Christian nationalism, often attributing the label to anyone who happens to be an evangelical and hold right-of-center political views. The problem with this perspective is ...
There’s an interesting parallel between how Jesus and the apostles saw the Law of Moses and the debates among 19th century slavery abolitionists about whether the United States Constitution served ...
Tucked away in one of Jesus’ short, unassuming parables is a hidden subversive message that pronounces coming judgment upon mankind’s systems of power. It all starts with a little mustard ...
Is it justifiable to vote for an immoral candidate from a scriptural perspective? Does Romans 13 give you a way out?
There’s a problem with proof-texting political authority and Romans 13. This article follows from my last post addressing the Russia-Ukraine War of 2022. And though the piece I’m critiquing itself ...
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