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Christian Ducats and Jewish Scales: Religious Currency in the Merchant of Venice

Academic Journal

Now available in CLR Volume 4: “Christian Ducats and Jewish Scales: Religious Currency in The Merchant of Venice“ by Joshua Fullman. Abstract: A significant amount of contemporary scholarship of Shakespeare’s The ...

Free Market Law

Economics

I want to direct your weekend reading to three excellent passages from my good friend Daniel Krawisz. Part 1: Free Market Law Libertarians sometimes try to derive solutions from the ...

When Christians Sold Out to the State En Masse

Book Reviews

Review of Gordon L. Heath, ed., American Churches and the First World War (Pickwick Publications, 2016), x + 213 pgs., paperback. It is fitting that American Churches and the First ...

The Libertarian Aquinas

Libertarianism

Jonathan McIntosh (Ph.D., University of Dallas) is a Fellow of Humanities at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, where he teaches on the history of western political and economic ...

No Trust in Judges (the Continuing Debate)

Libertarianism

The main point of Austin Rogers’ “Christians, Put Not Your Trust in Judges” is both spot-on and biblically accurate. Christians would do well to remember Psalm 146:3 which introduces the ...

Christians, Put Not Your Trust In Judges

Christian Worldview

“Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.” —Psalm 146:3 In 2016, many Christians that I know and respect wrestled mightily ...

The Real Reason Why Roe v. Wade Should Be Reconsidered

Libertarianism

Today, January 22, is National Sanctity of Human Life Day. The first such day was proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. The date was chosen because it is the ...

Presumption of Innocence is Social Justice

Culture

I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Pauluswho was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until ...

Can Immigrants Be Deported Without a Trial?

Libertarianism

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 ...

Mental Illness and the ‘Right to Try’

Culture

Following the recent high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Reuters published an article arguing that the “rise in U.S. suicides” indicates a “need for new depression drugs.” Despite ...

Legalizing Medical Marijuana is Pro-Life and Pro-Individual Liberty

Culture

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 ...

What I Learned about Christian Love from My Conversation With Black Lives Matter Leader Hawk Newsome

Politics

When Jesus visited his disciples after his execution, they were terrified. They expected him to bring the standard justice of the ancient world: vengeance. Instead, Jesus said, “Shalom.” This greeting ...

Political Correctness Hallucinates Immigrants as Animals

Politics

This week, the Political Correctness religion mass hallucinated that Trump called illegal immigrants animals because many of its members feel that way and deeply want to atone for it. Media ...

Jesus Wants Me to Break the Law

Christian Worldview

Early Christians understood that to proclaim Jesus is Lord and that their citizenship is in Heaven was to make a political statement: Caesar is not lord (or in today’s lingo, ...

Monday Morning Matrix Meme: What is the Government?

Politics

Whenever there’s a school shooting, the answer from the political left is always the same: take the guns away from citizens and give them all to Donald Trump. It’s a ...

Sinful Nature and the Question of the State’s Necessity

History

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 ...

Do you Believe in Natural Rights or Might-Makes-Right?

Libertarianism

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. ...

Jordan Peterson, Free Speech, and Missing the Bigger Point

Culture

The outspoken psychologist and Toronto University professor, Jordan Peterson, has become a popular icon of political conservativism, political incorrectness, and a bastion of free speech. His followers on Youtube are ...

Christianity and Government Considered

History

Today’s guest post is by writer/commentator Paul LaScola. In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he writes to the Christian followers of Jesus’ nascent Church that they should honor the Roman ...

Monday Morning Matrix Meme: Legality v. Morality

History

Being born into a nation-state, all of us are trained to equate “illegal” with “bad,” and “legal” with “OK.” And because many times there is, in fact, a direct correspondence ...

The John Baeza Files: Detective Blows Whistle on Drug War, Prison System

Libertarianism

Before he was Ron Paul and Rand Paul’s head of security, John Baeza was a cop’s cop. Coming from a family tradition of public servants, Baeza started his career as ...

Start With Jesus As King

Politics

American Christians just can’t quit our addiction to power. We have no problem with the notion that a majority should be able to use the coercive power of the State ...

Why I’m Triggered by Knee-Jerk Reactions

Politics

After a tragic event like the one brought on by a white terrorist in Las Vegas, predicting the ensuing social media conversation is easy. Gun control is too lax! say ...

How Should A Christian Politician Behave?

Libertarianism

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 ...

Freedom Is the Imitatio Christi

Libertarianism

“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 ...

How the Government “Works” – A Visual Model

Politics

How does the government actually “work?” In conversations about economics or politics, it is only a matter of time before this issue comes up. I’m not referring to the typical ...

Airbnb and the “Housing Shortage” Nonsense

Economics

If I hear another bureaucrat complain about Airbnb creating a “shortage” of housing, I’ll vomit. Airbnb, like the steam engine, wash machine, and internet, is a disruptive business innovation of ...

Twelve False Assumptions Behind Mainstream Politics

History

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 ...

Jamin Hübner on How State Accreditation Hinders Education

Libertarianism

Jamin Hübner, General Editor of LCI’s new research journal, Christian Libertarian Review, recently published an academic piece in The Journal of Religious Leadership on the bureaucratic roadblocks to accreditation caused ...

A Shining City on a Hill


Culture

Today’s guest post comes from Robert Maynard and was originally posted at Fifth Estate. ********** The notion of establishing a “City on a Hill” as an experiment in ordered liberty, ...

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