nationalism

Christian Nationalists Think God Wants to Keep Ethnicities Separate, But Does He?

Christian Worldview

The following is an excerpt from Cody Cook’s new book, Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Response. It addresses one of the dangerous assumptions of Christian Nationalism–that God wants to keep distinct ...

Progressive Christian Nationalism: The Contemporary Christian Left and Right Are Both Authoritarian

Christian Worldview

Progressive Christians are critical of Christian nationalism, often attributing the label to anyone who happens to be an evangelical and hold right-of-center political views. The problem with this perspective is ...

Resurging Nationalism: A Threat to Human Flourishing?

Events

This session was recorded at FreedomFest in Memphis, TN, on July 15, 2023 and was sponsored by the Libertarian Christian Institute. The panel was moderated by Reason’s Nick Gillespie, the ...

Recap of LCI’s Trip to FreedomFest 2023

Events

We’re back from our second year at FreedomFest, this time in Memphis, TN, an appropriate location for an event headlined as “The Soul of Liberty.” I want to share with ...

mustard seed

The Astonishing Power of a Faithful Mustard Seed Revolution

Libertarianism

Tucked away in one of Jesus’ short, unassuming parables is a hidden subversive message that pronounces coming judgment upon mankind’s systems of power. It all starts with a little mustard ...

Good News, Bad News March 17, 2022: Biden Blames Putin, Christian Nationalists are Confused

Media

The Libertarian Christian Roundtable discusses the absurdities of the Biden Administration’s blaming Vladimir Putin for rising gas prices, why Nancy Pelosi needs to stop talking forever, why Christian nationalists are ...

Weekend Insights – Rittenhouse Acquitted

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

The real Christian Nation

Christian Worldview

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

All Nations are “Under God”

Christian Worldview

Laurence Vance’s article on the pledge of allegiance elicited an excellent discussion from the LCC community. I’d like to perform my own little “twist” to his point about a nation being “under ...

Weekend Insights – America’s True Freedom?

President's Blog

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Can Christians Serve Two Masters?

Christian Worldview

“No man can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24). The fine print at the bottom of the website where I signed up to receive some religious newsletters read: “From time to ...

When Christians Love Political Power More Than People

Christian Worldview

… 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 ...

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.

Jesus was an Anti-Nationalist

Christian Worldview

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament ...

War in the forest

Should the USA pull out of Syria?

Christian Worldview

President Trump’s decision to relocate approximately 50 U.S. troops within Syria set off a firestorm of outrage and disbelief. I am not particularly interested in the responses of the usual ...

Thirteen Signs Caesar Might Be Lord of Your Life

Culture

“A fish doesn’t know it’s swimming in water.” “A crazy man doesn’t know he’s crazy.” We’ve all heard these quips. And they indicate something powerful – namely, the mass blindness ...

God is the Author of Liberty

Theology

This sermon was given by Pastor David Bess at his congregation this July 6th, 2014. Scripture Reading: Luke 4:16-21 We begin with the words of a well-known song: My country ...

A Farewell to Mars

American History

I cannot overstate my excitement to promote Brian Zahnd’s latest book, A Farewell to Mars. I am passionate about the message of Jesus as it addresses all of life, including politics. ...

Theological Schizophrenia

Theology

It is bad enough that Republican warmongers like Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Allan West are whining about the supposed cuts to the defense budget that are due ...

Should Christians cite the Pledge of Allegiance?

Christian Worldview

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for ...

Christians cannot be nationalists

Christian Worldview

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column concludes the ...

The United States: Not a Biblical Nation

Christian Worldview

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

“Why do the nations rage?” and more on Biblical nations

Theology

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

Theology of Nations in the Bible

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

Biblical Nations are not States

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

The Criminality of War

Christian Ethics

Even without the WikiLeaks revelations that U.S. helicopter pilots gunned down twelve Iraqi civilians, that U.S. soldiers ignored brutal torture carried out by Iraqi security forces, that the U.S. military ...

War is Mass Murder

Media

I just watched two video clips from the Stossel Show recorded at the Students for Liberty International Conference. Stossel’s guest is David Boaz from the Cato Institute. During the first ...

Our Men and Women in Uniform

Culture

Our men and women in uniform have stood in the forefront of the war on terror since soon after 9/11. Our men and women in uniform are our first line ...

How to Eliminate War (with the Olympics)

Politics

The Olympic Games have historically represented a time of peace for the world. The sacred city of Olympia, the site of the games of ancient Greece, forbade the possession of ...

Architects of Leviathan

Politics

By Edmund Opitz Opitz delivered this paper in October 1973 before Hillsdale College students and faculty during “Political Morality: From Socrates to Nixon,” the first seminar of the Center for ...

Book Review: Leviathan at War edited by Edmund A. Opitz

Book Reviews

Perhaps the most valid justification of government is its defense of citizens against foreign aggressors. But when governments wage war, a thin line separates defense and offense. And even in ...

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