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Weekend Insights – Of word games, viral and otherwise

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Weekend Insights – Perils of Power

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Weekend Insights – Yeah I know it’s Monday

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

The Things That Make For Peace

War and Peace

I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war. – Psalm 120:7 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and ...

Reparations: Good or Bad?

Book Reviews

Slavery is offensive and incompatible with the principles of freedom and freedom minded people, but it is a part of US and world history. Wrestling with this history and deciding ...

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.

Jesus was an Anti-Nationalist

Christian Worldview

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament ...

“Christian America” Is Dead. Where Does Our Hope Come From?

Culture

When it comes to the contemporary political and cultural landscape, I believe a large segment of American Christians feel completely surrounded with no means of escape, and they are fighting ...

The Day I Went Back to Church

Culture

Yesterday was the first day my church gathered corporately since our governor instituted a stay-at-home order in mid-March. After nearly three months of worshiping from home via livestream or home ...

give to caesar bible verses about government

Coronavirus and the Church

Libertarianism

This guest post is authored by Rev. Jim Fitzgerald, a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a staff member of Equipping Pastors International.  Community is so important that even ...

The Gospel in Pandemic Times

Christian Worldview

It is startling, to say the least, seeing how the COVID-19 virus has affected almost everyone around the world in such a short period. But what is even more startling ...

War in the forest

Church Support for War Created Social Justice Rage

Libertarianism

Rene Girard: “'Saul, why do you persecute me?' (Acts 22.7). This is the fundamental question. Christian conversion is our discovery that we are persecutors without knowing it. All participation in ...

Mailbag: Should we separate from the church?

Christian Worldview

The Church Universal is the body of Christ. It has a "corporate" and "individual" component to it, if you will. You might even say this is somewhat laid forth in ...

Elucidating Ellul #3: Statism

Libertarianism

What used to be a utopian view of society, with the state playing the role of the brain, not only has been ideologically accepted in the present time but also ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Want to “Do Something?” Embody the Kingdom of God

Christian Worldview

The subject of the kingdom of God is worth returning to again and again because a biblically-informed understanding of the kingdom emboldens the people of God for Spirit-filled kingdom demonstration. ...

Jesus Wasn’t A Libertarian (But He’s Glad I Am!)

Featured

Christianity is Making a “Social Turn” Christian thought and practice is making a turn toward a qualitatively social faith. That is, the good news of Jesus Christ is widely recognized ...

Rendering to God

Theology

This guest post is by Daniel Shorthouse. Daniel is a political theory and economics nerd, an obsessive reader of theology, and the Director of Worship at an Anglican church in the ...

Misshaping Scripture for Political Gain: The Acts 2 Argument

Theology

It’s not uncommon to find Christians defending their political sympathies with isolated Scripture verses.  Jesus can be construed as a Democrat, Republican, anarchist, socialist, communist, or (of course) as a ...

Theology in the 21st Century

Culture

Speaking at the 2017 John Witherspoon College convocation, Christian Libertarian Review General Editor and Professor Jamin Hübner presented the following talk on theology in the 21st century.

Patriotic Services

American History

For the past two weeks, the sign in front of a church near my house has advertised a “patriotic service” for Sunday, July 2. Other churches around town undoubtedly held ...

Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?

Politics

Memorial Day, as we all know, is not just the official beginning of the summer vacation season. It is a federal holiday that commemorates U.S. soldiers who died in military ...

Resurrection Sunday: the Surety of Our Hope

History

Each Easter, countless people from around the world look forward to spending time with friends and family, or perhaps just an extra day off. But for those of us who ...

The Curious Case of Russell Moore

History

Most politically-aware Christians are probably at least somewhat-familiar with the recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention surrounding Russell Moore, who is presently head of the public policy arm of ...

Announcing: Christian Libertarian Review

Announcements

As LCI has considered our direction over these past several months, it has become increasingly clear that our greatest value to both the Church and the liberty movement involves content ...

Called to Freedom

Toward a More Augustinian View of Government

History

The following is an excerpt from Jason Hughey’s chapter in the new book, Called to Freedom. (edited for format) With a new understanding of Romans 13, First Peter 2, and ...

Announcing The Libertarian Christian Podcast

Events

It’s a big day for LCI. Coinciding with our attendance at the 2017 International Students for Liberty Conference, today we launch the inaugural episode of The Libertarian Christian Podcast! A ...

People, Not Issues

Theology

What happens to individuals after issues are won and lost in the political arena? For instance: when immigration bans are enacted, then put on hold, and then finally settled (Supreme ...

David Gornoski Interviews Ron Paul

Media

Author and friend of LCI, David Gornoski, recently interviewed Ron Paul on the subject of Christian nonviolence. It’s always great to hear Dr. Paul talk about political philosophy, but what ...

The Dying and Desperate Left

Culture

The American Left – which never had a sterling record to begin with – is rapidly deteriorating. In one sense it may seem surprising how expediently the Left has turned ...

Change History: Support LCI in 2017

Events

Why is it that followers of the Prince of Peace are so often the quickest to beat the drums of war? And why do so many think that “love your ...

The Incarnation and Liberty

Libertarianism

As the end of the year approaches, most people are thinking about the cultural and practical aspects of the Christmas season: vacations, presents, decorations, food and the like. Amongst Christians, ...

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