Now available in CLR Volume 4: “Edmund Opitz and the Chastening of Secular Libertarianism” by Vic McCracken. Abstract: Edmund Opitz (1914-2006) was a major figure in 20th-century Christian libertarianism who ...
There are loads of obsessives today: folks fixated on their phone, TV, sports, race, sex, etc. But the only ones labeled “fanatics” by secular media are religious. And, Lord knows, ...
… the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “I will give it all ...
This is a guest post by Jim Fedako. He is a homeschooling father of six who lives in Lewis Center, OH, and maintains a blog: Anti-Positivist. Leave Government and Cleave ...
The Gospel of Matthew was probably written in the last decades of the 1st century A.D. after the fall of Jerusalem. The traditional author Matthew, also called Levi, was a ...
As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are in agreement: the world cannot be fundamentally changed for the ...
The COVID-19 outbreak is front and center in everyone’s mind. Emotions run high as states across the US have ordered people to stop working and stay home. Some people have ...
This guest post was written by Dr. Douglas Young. To prevent more mass shootings, many demand more gun control laws. But do these laws prevent such massacres or address their ...
It is part of human development that people from every generation must come to terms with and decide what to accept from the faith traditions they inherit from previous generations. ...
In my last article, I introduced Gary North and his book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. This book is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. North is ...
This opinion piece was written by Judge Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey and senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Last weekend, President ...
In his book The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Alan Kreider discusses how the early Christians lived in tension between the indigenizing principle and the pilgrim principle—between being at home ...
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Masterpiece in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission of the ...
A common criticism of capitalism is that it is inherently immoral. Capitalism is conflated into some type of economic Darwinism – survival of the wealthiest. To be a successful capitalist ...
God has gifted us with free will. We can choose between right and wrong, good and evil. We are free to follow Him or walk away. The gift of free ...
Disclaimer: LCI posts articles representing a broad range of views from authors who identify as both Christian and libertarian. Of course, not everyone will agree with every article, and not ...
The linchpin of liberty, the most critical concept which people seem to have an extraordinarily difficult time understanding, is the concept of natural rights. It’s exceedingly simple and easily proven. ...
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 ...
I recently met with a candidate for public office in Texas who had a number of questions about how to think about the connections between Christianity and libertarianism. We had ...
Christians Serious About Justice Cannot Pretend History Began Yesterday Readers of The Gospel Coalition could hardly be blamed for thinking the present-day Libyan slave trade was spontaneously created from a ...
There are many divergent views about specific topics within libertarian Christian thought, just as there are within strictly libertarian or strictly Christian thinking. But the overarching theme that unites the ...
The following is a response to a recent e-mail received by Norman Horn. (names redacted) Dear , Thank you for your kind remarks and questions. I’ll attempt to answer ...
“The truth shall set you free.” — Jesus Christ The truth, as Jesus demonstrated, is not conceptual but perceptual. That is, it is embodied, not abstract knowledge. The truth can only be ...
* Today’s guest post is by anthropologist Spencer H. MacCallum. A Wakeup Call for Christian Libertarians The Teacher of Galilee: A Seer Who Really Did See “How tantalizing,” economist ...
1. That the world’s problems can be solved by passing more laws. The more rules there are, the less freedom we have. There are now more criminal laws in the ...
I recently saw a video by a libertarian commentator named TJ Brown, also known as That Guy T, on YouTube making a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment that the liberty movement would ...
Today’s guest post is by Rev. Jacob Chulsung Kim, PhD. Libertarian-leaning Christians face resistance from other believers for many reasons, one of which is the problem of greed. Because ...
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 ...
It didn’t take long. With the recent bombing of Syria on the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I, Mr. Trump has pushed us all a little bit ...
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 ...
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