With over 14,000 dead and many thousands more injured or displaced, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a present-day horror. Urban bombardment has devastated population centers, flattened hospitals, and driven ...
Comparing Nagasaki to the Christmas Truce of WWI When the Jewish prophet Isaiah wrote of the coming Messiah, he presented a figure who would cause the nations to “hammer their ...
Drone Warfare and the Principle of Discrimination in the “War on Terror” Americans seem to have fully regained their appetite for war in the wake of the latest terrorist attacks ...
What is the Olympic Truce? What is the history of the Olympic Games? Explore international politics and war in context with the Olympics.
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 ...
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” Lev. 19:15 It doesn’t take much time to notice that ...
As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are in agreement: the world cannot be fundamentally changed for the ...
The following is adapted from our forthcoming book, 100 Answers to Tough Questions for Libertarian Christians. To be informed when we launch the book, sign up for our newsletter! Question: Should ...
Bloodshed Leads to More Bloodshed Whatever happened to the rifleman? I’ve got a job for the rifleman. He really knew how to settle the score When mercy knocked on the ...
Our culture is addicted to violence. That includes most Christians. A few months ago, I went to a men’s conference at a large evangelical church. During the very first session, ...
If God doesn’t use force and violence to bend us to his will, why do we insist on using force and violence to bend other people to our will? Shouldn’t ...
Bible Verses About God’s Love for Man The Richmond Observer recently published an article I wrote arguing that the Bible is not “pro-government.” In summation: To say the Bible is ...
“Google should be ashamed,” says Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for George WMD Bush who is a “is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he ...
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his book, The Antichrist: “Christianity has taken the side of everything weak, base, ill-constituted, it has made an ideal out of opposition to the instinct of ...
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, ...
All artistic masterpieces have something in common, according to René Girard. Akira Kurosawa’s movie Seven Samurai, better known to western audiences as The Magnificent Seven, is one of those masterpieces. ...
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 ...
People generally don’t want war. In fact, the natural resistance of human beings to kill one other is so strong that even when being paid and forced at gunpoint ...
Friend of the Libertarian Christian Institute David Gornoski recently interviewed Jason Jones — a Catholic activist and human rights worker — about Catholic social teaching, mimetic theory, and what it ...
2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31st, 1517, and the world was never ...
“I’m the secretary of defense. We defend the country.” ~ Secretary of Defense James Mattis Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis retired in 2013 after 41 years of military ...
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 ...
Memorial Day, as we all know, is not just the official beginning of the summer vacation season. It is a federal holiday that commemorates U.S. soldiers who died in military ...
I recently saw a video by a libertarian commentator named TJ Brown, also known as That Guy T, on YouTube making a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment that the liberty movement would ...
Holding an anti-terrorism conference in Saudi Arabia is so absurd that it defies comprehension. Everyone who knows most anything about Middle Eastern affairs knows that Saudi Arabia is the world’s ...
It didn’t take long. With the recent bombing of Syria on the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I, Mr. Trump has pushed us all a little bit ...
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Dying Senselessly: Saying What Needs to Be Said About the Military ...
That the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama was an “obomination” there is no question. During his presidency I wrote of his radical associations, his life spent in the service of ...
Author and friend of LCI, David Gornoski, recently interviewed Ron Paul on the subject of Christian nonviolence. It’s always great to hear Dr. Paul talk about political philosophy, but what ...
Religious superstition characterized the Greco-Roman culture of the first-century. Here is but one snapshot of home life: In addition to statuary and household altars (which were fixed architectural features by ...
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