Episodes

Ep 158: Our Foundations, with Joshua Longbrook

Podcast

Joshua Longbrook of the Our Foundations Podcast joins Doug to talk about his podcast, why it’s extremely relevant to listener’s of the Libertarian Christian Podcast, the sort of topics they ...

Ep 157: Econ is for Lovers, with Sarah Estelle

Economics

Can love be expressed through economics? Sarah Estelle from econisforlovers.com joins us to talk about the Economic Way of Loving and how being equipped with economic knowledge will help us ...

Things I Learned in New York City: GodArchy Podcast #34

Podcast

What can one learn in the Big Apple? A lot, as it turns out. In this episode of the GodArchy Podcast, I share some things I learned about life and ...

Ep 159: Regulation, Economic Life, and Conservative Nationalism, with Stephanie Slade

News

Do ordinary libertarians have something to learn from Christian social teaching? Are all of the Popes wrong about economics? Why is conservative nationalism on the rise? Stephanie Slade from Reason ...

Ep 156: Open Borders, with Bryan Caplan

Christian Worldview

If open immigration would vastly improve the lot of most of the world, why would anybody oppose it? What objections might a libertarian have against open borders? To answer that, ...

Ep 155: Could Not Voting Improve the World? with Chris Freiman

Christian Worldview

What if you just stayed home on voting day? Why would this be a better moral choice? Is there anything lost personally or societally if you choose not to vote? ...

The Great Abortion Debate: A Chat With Kerry Baldwin GodArchy #33

Podcast

Pro-life? Pro-choice? Which side are you on? Few issues are as binary and divisive as abortion. But the standard “pro-life” and “pro-choice” positions in American politics have utterly failed to ...

Ep 154: An AnarchoConversation

Christian Worldview

Doug welcomes to the show Stephen of the AnarchoChristian Podcast to discuss how he became an anarcho-capitalist, the evolution of his ideas, and how to walk the line between supporting ...

Ep 153: The World is Getting Better, with Marian Tupy

Christian Worldview

Why do people think the world is getting worse, when the opposite is true? Marian Tupy of HumanProgress.org joins us to talk about global data and why we need to ...

Open Borders: A Discussion With Economist Bryan Caplan GodArchy #32

Podcast

Open borders would destroy the American way! Or would it? As it turns out, a lot of the conventional wisdom when it comes to immigration is actually at odds with ...

Ep 152: Live Free & Flourish

Christian Worldview

Should libertarian Christians only be known for what we are against? Why not be known for what we promote? Doug Stuart makes the argument that advocating for human flourishing is ...

A Good Guy With a Gun: GodArchy Podcast Bonus Episode

Podcast

A killer in a church killed. Was this an incident to celebrate or to mourn? In this bonus episode of the GodArchy podcast, I talk about the recent events inside ...

Ep 151: A Secure Border, Tulsi Gabbard, Doxxing, and other Q&R

Economics

What should be done about doxxing? How does libertarianism differ between various beliefs in human free will? Should we elect Tulsi Gabbard in 2020? All these and more are answered ...

Build That Wall? GodArchy Podcast #31

Podcast

Should America build that wall? Should libertarians support it? And what about Christians? In this episode, I tackle the issue of immigration from both a libertarian and Christian perspective in ...

Ep 150: Turn Neither to the Right Nor to the Left, with Eric Schansberg

Economics

Why would a politician change her position on a policy? How do we account for views that “shift” in one direction or another, especially when it appears to be out ...

Ep 149: Trains, Jesus, & Murder, with Richard Beck

Culture

Richard Beck joins us again to discuss his new book on Johnny Cash. Why was Johnny Cash so popular? How did he bring together gospel and murder songs? Was he ...

Policing Without Police: GodArchy Podcast #30

Podcast

Do we really need government cops to “protect us?” Peter Quinones doesn’t think so. In this episode of the GodArchy podcast, he joins me to talk about the concept of ...

Ep 148: Church Worth Getting Up For, with Chuck Gutenson

Culture

One of the most common questions we get at LCI is “how do I find a church community where I can belong as a libertarian?” Chuck Gutenson joins us to ...

Ep 147: Priorities to Dismantling the State

Culture

If you’re not a button pusher (to end the state tomorrow), then what smaller “buttons” would you push, and in what order, to end the tyranny of the state? Doug ...

Ep 146: Minarchism, Anarchism, and What is a True Libertarian?

Culture

Should anarchists make a minarchist argument to win statists over? Does being a minarchist make you unlibertarian? WHat would disqualify you from not being a libertarian? And would you push ...

Ep 145: Loving Enemies in an Age of Violence, with Ron Sider

Culture

Did Jesus really say that his followers could never use violence? Are there circumstances whereby a person should reluctantly use violence because the situation permits it? If a Christian decides ...

Are You Gonna Make Me? GodArchy Podcast 29

Podcast

How can one believe in Anarchy and also in an Abrahamic religion? if you’re happy for a religious cult to rule your life, why not a country? They’re practically the ...

Ep 144: Postcards from Babylon, with Brian Zahnd

Libertarianism

Brian Zahnd joins us again to discuss the themes in his book, Postcards from Babylon. The American Church is trending toward idolatry, and the Scriptures have a lot to say ...

Ep 143: Love Anyway, with Jeremy Courtney

Podcast

How do you unmake violence in parts of the world at war? How do you see those in need as friends and not just part of some aggregate situation? What ...

His Moral High Horse Is Lame: GodArchy Podcast 28

Podcast

A lot of people on the left (and the right) justify their politics because they view their preferred policies as just, compassionate and loving. In this episode of the GodArchy ...

Ep 142: Must Politics Be War? with Kevin Vallier

Christian Worldview

Should libertarians make concessions in the political arena in order to advance a better liberty? How the current American political atmosphere made us more trusting of each other? Is a ...

Ep 141: How to Talk to an Atheist with Justin Brierley

Christian Worldview

Justin Brierley joins us to talk about his experience bringing atheists and Christian apologists together on his show, as well as his book, Unbelievable? where he makes the case for ...

Mercy Is a Silver Pearl – Radical Forgiveness for a Killer-Cop GodArchy Podcast 27

Podcast

Vengeance, so wrong. Drop the gun, forgive the girl. My love, so strong. Mercy is a silver pearl. By now, you’ve probably heard about the Dallas cop who killed an ...

Ep 140: Should Christians Care About Competition? with Dr. Art Carden

Christian Worldview

Economists like competition because competitive markets create what the economist Tim Harford calls “a world of truth”: we produce, as he puts it, the right things the right way and in ...

Ep 139: Religious Toleration In Colonial America, with Dr. Jason Jewell

American History

Religious liberty is sometimes described as “America’s first freedom,” but it was only achieved after more than a century of painful experience and with the development of careful arguments in colonial ...

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