May Christians Ignore Unjust Laws?
May Christians ignore unjust laws? When you ask a Christian what the relationship between the Christian and the government is …
Tag: justice
Is Jesus killing America? No, Jesus is life.
Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles …
God’s justice is better than man’s justice: A response to Tim Keller
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 its relationship to the social justice conversation. While we could likely agree with some of his sentiments, other things he says are just plain wrong. His characterizations of libertarianism as being in conflict with biblical justice warrant a response.
Romans 13 for Dummies
“It is very biblical to enforce the law.” – Sarah Sanders Romans 13 is in the news, and is being …
Anarchism, Minarchism, and Legitimacy in Civil Governance
Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For …
Hard Questions on the Drug War
As I have maintained in all of my articles on the drug war, the war on drugs is a monstrous …
Is Progress Possible?
This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book …
Politics, Left and Right
Tim Suttle, author of An Evangelical Social Gospel? (which I reviewed here) recently posted an article in the Huffington Post …
“It is Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong” Book Review
Review of Andrew Napolitano, It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom …
Nuremberg, Eichmann, and Extra-Judicial Murder
Nazi Germany – the totalitarian rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933-1945 – is infamously remembered for …
What’s Wrong with Social Justice?
What does “social justice” mean? To the extent that it is about justice – outputs being aligned with inputs; effect …
Two Concepts of Equality
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The great …
“First They Came…”
“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 others? Let us not be silent when we have good opportunity “to speak truth to power.”