foreign policy

The Haunting of Christ in the Holy Land

Culture

The Israel-Palestine vortex of human suffering that has flooded eyes on social media over the last weeks has been stupefying. As a result, many people have been rendered numb to ...

Why They Died in Vain

War and Peace

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, I have unequivocally maintained several things about the deaths of U.S. troops. Every one of the 4,450 U.S. soldiers who has died ...

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 ...

The United States & North Korea: the Formation of a Relationship

Politics

Donald Trump has become the first sitting United States President to meet with a North Korean Leader. Depending on who you read, the summit was a distraction, offensive, nearly miraculous, ...

Just War? Christian Leaders Must Avoid Becoming Court Prophets

War and Peace

Disappointingly (but not surprisingly), a prominent evangelical leader has once again provided alleged moral justification for war in the Middle East. Russell Moore is to be commended for the cautious ...

Pro-Life At Home But Not Abroad

Christian Worldview

Christians Need To Broaden Their Pro-Life Horizons Conventional wisdom says that a Republican candidate for President will almost certainly not win the nomination unless they are sufficiently pro-life. Mitt Romney ...

The Israel of God and American Foreign Policy

Christian Worldview

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 ...

The Defective Faith-Based Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson

Book Reviews

George W. Bush was not the first president to have a “faith-based” foreign policy. Most people know that Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the U.S. president from 1913 to 1921. Some ...

Militarism in American Churches

Christian Worldview

Since the United States launched the unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and senseless war in Iraq in 2003, the Christian blasphemy occurring in churches has increased ten-fold. Even as the many lies ...

The Old Cause

American History

This guest post is by C.Jay Engel of The Reformed Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. I have read a good deal of all that Murray ...

You Can’t Have a War Without Soldiers

Libertarianism

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire Critics of the wars in Iraq ...

Just Politics

Book Reviews

To get an idea of Ronald Sider’s perspective in this book, we might begin with a look at the man Jim Wallis, the president and CEO of Sojourners, calls “one ...

I Question Your Patriotism

Politics

I have been called a lot of things since I began writing about ten years ago on the folly of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the evils of the ...

Is War Worth It?

War and Peace

Believe it or not, I like getting e-mails from military veterans. I do admit, though, that this might seem like the last thing anyone would expect after looking through my ...

News of the Week, Sept. 22, 2012 Edition: End the Drug War!

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. American Christians should be concerned about drugs not because the drugs themselves harm (some do, and some not ...

No More Entangling Alliances

History

Would the United States go to war over marine life illegally harvested in the South China Sea? The very thought of such a thing sounds ludicrous. But under the U.S. ...

Korea Shows All That Is Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

History

The tension on the Korean peninsula escalated late last year when South Korea began live-firing drills off its coastline. That was after North and South Korea shelled each other for ...

Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?

Politics

The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, and stifle debate over U.S. foreign policy. Throughout the twentieth ...

How to Reduce Military Suicides

Politics

Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I have been quite vocal in my opposition to most of what is done by the U.S. military in the name of defending ...

Christians, Israel, and a Humble Libertarian

Christian Worldview

Wes Messamore is a friend of mine and his work is excellent. He recently wrote a superb post on the United States’ relationship with Israel, with a particular bent toward ...

Should I be thanking God that Bin Laden is dead?

News

After a brutal week of nature-induced devastation in the deep South and continuation of military-induced devastation in Libya, America began this week with President Obama announcing to the world that ...

News of the Week: Egypt throws the blokes out

News

Recapping the interesting and noteworthy events of the past week. Mubarak quits. That’s the news, folks. I’m not sure anything else comes close to this. The next big question really ...

Egypt and U.S. Foreign Policy

Politics

Until very recently, the only things many Americans knew about Egypt were its pyramids they read about in their school history texts, its mummies they saw on display at U.S. ...

Michael Moore is Right

War and Peace

“Terrorists aren’t trying to kill us because they hate our freedom. They’re killing us because we’re in their countries killing them.”  – Michael Moore In his new book Decision Points, ...

Podcast: War, Foreign Policy, and the Church (Part 2)

Appearances

My apologies for being late with part 2 of “War, Foreign Policy, and the Church,” but life happens, you know? This is the exciting conclusion to one of Laurence Vance’s ...

Podcast: War, Foreign Policy, and the Church (Part 1)

Appearances

As promised, the weekly podcast is here! In this selection from Christianity and War by Laurence Vance, we cover a lot of ground. So much so, in fact, that I ...

Obama Orders First Murder

News

Congratulations are in order for President Barack Obama, who today has successfully completed the common rite of passage of Presidents: ordering his first murder. See folks, don’t forget that morality ...

5 Predictions for 2009

Economics

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is uncertain and that much has yet to transpire. But now ...

Christian Thoughts on Israel-Palestine

Christian Ethics

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Scott Ritsema of CivicsNews.com to write our first-ever guest post. Scott is the editor of CivicsNews.com and the author of The Way, The Truth, and ...

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