Pro-Life At Home But Not Abroad
Christians Need To Broaden Their Pro-Life Horizons Conventional wisdom says that a Republican candidate for President will almost certainly not …
Category: War and Peace
The Prince of Peace, or the God of War?
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his …
Getting to the Root of ISIS and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
A Response to Russell Moore’s “Why Christians Must Speak Out Against Donald Trump’s Muslim Remarks”. The least courageous act in …
Look out for Christian Jihadists
Christian jihadist—now there is an oxymoron for you. This sounds even stranger than constitutional conservative or libertarian Republican. Nevertheless, there …
Paris and What Should Be Done
The horrific attacks in Paris on Friday have, predictably, led to much over-reaction and demands that we do more of …
Ben Carson the Welfare and Warfare Statist
It happens every four years. Candidates for president issue books to sucker people to vote for them using the written …
Reader questions on war, violence, and overturning tables
I always enjoy getting interesting questions from readers via our Contact Page, and when I’m really on top of things …
Things that Make for Peace: Gospel Against Empire
This post is a modified form of the talk I gave at Christians for Liberty 2015. The purpose of the …
Ye Shall Be As Gods
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And …
Joseph Judson Taylor, Man of Peace
Since the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, two words that have rarely been seen together are “Baptist” and “pacifist.” We have instead been subject to things like high-profile Baptist leader Jerry Falwell writing a defense of the Iraq war titled “God Is Pro-War” …
The Israel of God and American Foreign Policy
I want to address something that concerns me much more than momentary arguments over foreign policy. I would like to address Christians, specifically from the Bible, on two separate, but inter-connected questions. The first question I would like to attempt to answer is whether or not the current nation state known as Israel today is “the Israel of God”. In other words, is the current geographic nation-state that was established in the early 1950’s the same entity as the Biblical Israel?
Sniper Theology
There came out of the woodwork after George W. Bush’s immoral, unjust, and unnecessary invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq …
Tearing Out Your Eye and Quitting Your Job
In this guest post LCC welcomes Matthew Gilliland, libertarian writer and speaker. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central …
The Christmas Truce, Then and Now
Today, Christmas Eve 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas during World War 1. On that remarkable day, soilders …
When Horror Took a Holiday: Remembering the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Truce
This Christmas Eve marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce, when French, British, Scottish, and German soldiers unexpectedly laid …
Militarism in American Churches
Since the United States launched the unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and senseless war in Iraq in 2003, the Christian blasphemy occurring …
The Great and (Un)Holy War
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 Peace. But such is not the case now, and such was not the case 100 years ago during the Great War that we now call World War I.
Nuclear Christians
In a recent article of mine about Christians apologists for the state, its military, and its wars, I mentioned, for …
Invading Iraq was wrong, and it’s wrong to do it again
This guest post is by Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. …
Kevin Vallier on Christian Pacifism and Libertarianism
I have often wondered why my liberal or progressive Christian friends who are also pacifists give nearly zero credibility to libertarianism, even though …
Militarism and Easter
On this Good Friday, Christians are focused on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of …
The Antidote to Military Exceptionalism
This talk was given at the Authors Forum at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. I …
Pray for Our Troops
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; (1 …
Dismantling the American Empire
The WikiLeaks revelations have shined a light on the dark nature of U.S. foreign policy, including, as Eric Margolis recently …
War, Empire, and the Military
Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy …
You Can’t Have a War Without Soldiers
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound …
The Cult of the Uniform
There are a number of distinctly American symbols that evoke feelings of pride, nationalism, and patriotism. There is the Constitution. …
Erasmus on the Just War
“The most just of wars brings with it a train of evils—if indeed any war can really be called just.” …
Erasmus on Soldiers
“Who could possibly tell how many hardships these idiots of soldiers put up with in their camps? And they deserve …
Erasmus on the Evils of War
“Since we see that there is hardly ever any respite from wars, which normally arise from the ambition or anger …