I have often wondered why my liberal or progressive Christian friends who are also pacifists give nearly zero credibility to libertarianism, even though non-aggression is its foundational principle! Over at Bleeding Heart Libertarians, ...
Two articles came to my attention today that are well worth reading. The first comes from Judge Andrew Napolitano as an Easter reflection called Hope for the Dead. He suggests ...
David E. Settje, Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars (NYU Press, 2011), xi + 233 pgs., hardcover, $36. This informative book reminds us that the ...
The Internet has no lack of passionate writers opining about the Arizona bill that would have allow businesses to deny service to gay people based on the religious beliefs of the ...
Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV 1984): 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be ...
Review of Daniel M. Bell Jr., The Economy of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World (Baker Academic, 2012), 224 pgs., paperback. This is the sixth volume in the ...
The Catholic Patriarch of Syria has recently stated that a United States attack on Syria would be a “criminal act,” highlighting how U.S. government interventionism not only affects millions of ...
This past Memorial Day brought forth the usual military idolatry. What makes it worse, though, is that this military idolatry is so rampant among Christians and in churches. And just ...
Almost two years ago, I reported that there are no more churches in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. Now, Andrew Doran at AmCon Mag tells the story of ...
Breitbart reports that the Pentagon recently released a statement that soldiers who share their faith (I presume Christian or otherwise): This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the ...
There is no disputing the fact that gambling can be addictive and financially ruinous. In some cases, compulsive gamblers might even neglect their family, ruin their physical and mental health, ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the May 1973 issue of The Freeman. ...
Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. Bob Murphy reconciles anarcho-capitalism with Christianity. Doug Newman asks if Christians should ever vote for the lesser of ...
Randy England has an interesting article at LewRockwell.com regarding Paul’s attitude toward secular authority. Here is a short excerpt: —- Christian statists will always drag out St. Paul’s epistle to ...
This is the first in a series posts liveblogging Tim Suttle’s book, Public Jesus. Most people tend to believe that faith is only a private matter. Christians in America tend ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the December 1969 issue of The Freeman, ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the May 1979 issue of The Freeman. Man ...
Norman’s note: This guest post is by Prof. Ryan McMaken. Even though the article is specifically about Catholic Christians, every major point could be applied to Protestants as well. Many ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This selection was a Sunday morning sermonette at a FEE seminar in 1965. ...
By Jeffrey Tucker, originally posted at Mises.org on March 30, 2011. For years I’ve puzzled over the question of why religious people have such trouble coming to terms with economics. ...
Today we continue the podcast series of the Christianity and War Audiobook, by Laurence Vance. This essay is entitled “What Happened to the Southern Baptists?”, and chronicles how the SBC ...
If a patron saint for the libertarian movement were to be chosen, at the top of the list would be Rev. Edmund A. Opitz, minister and theologian for liberty. He ...
By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped for the day when their children would be free. Gradually ...
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