justice

May Christians ignore unjust laws?

May Christians Ignore Unjust Laws?

Christian Worldview

May Christians ignore unjust laws? When you ask a Christian what the relationship between the Christian and the government is they are most likely to point to Matthew 22:21 (NET), ...

Is Jesus killing America? No, Jesus is life.

Christian Worldview

Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise ...

God’s justice is better than man’s justice: A response to Tim Keller

Christian Worldview

Tim Keller recently published an article entitled, “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory.” His article is a sort of apologia for his conception of “biblical justice” and ...

Romans 13 for Dummies

Featured

“It is very biblical to enforce the law.” – Sarah Sanders Romans 13 is in the news, and is being abused by the White House to enforce an unjust law. ...

Anarchism, Minarchism, and Legitimacy in Civil Governance

Politics

Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For some, this is the worn-out debate between a view supporting ...

Hard Questions on the Drug War

Libertarianism

As I have maintained in all of my articles on the drug war, the war on drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. The ...

Is Progress Possible?

Culture

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book God In the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, subtitled ...

Politics, Left and Right

Politics

Tim Suttle, author of An Evangelical Social Gospel? (which I reviewed here) recently posted an article in the Huffington Post Religion section titled, “What is the Chief Political Concern of ...

“It is Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong” Book Review

Book Reviews

Review of Andrew Napolitano, It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom (Thomas Nelson, 2011), 320 pp. Hardcover: $24.99 ($16.49 on Amazon.com). ...

Nuremberg, Eichmann, and Extra-Judicial Murder

History

Nazi Germany – the totalitarian rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933-1945 – is infamously remembered for two things: World War II and the Holocaust. After pulling ...

What’s Wrong with Social Justice?

Culture

What does “social justice” mean?  To the extent that it is about justice  – outputs being aligned with inputs; effect being aligned with cause; reaping reward and punishment in right ...

Two Concepts of Equality

Economics

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The great political battles of the modern world have been fought around ...

“First They Came…”

Politics

“There is a time for everything,” says Solomon, the wise author of Ecclesiastes. Are we mindful enough of when it is necessary and right to proclaim justice on behalf of ...

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