This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn more about Lipscomb’s background here ...
This article begins a new series of weekly posts authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the United States. Learn more about Lipscomb’s background ...
If you missed Jeff Wright’s recent guest post, go read it now. Jeff has written a must-read essay on the spiritual effects of political engagement. He engages the danger in thoughtlessly using ...
One of the most historically popular (and interesting, in my opinion) articles on LCC has been my New Testament Theology of the State (in two parts, see part 2 here). ...
An image has been making the rounds on Facebook recently suggesting that statism is not much different from a religion. Strangely enough, the United States federal government (and pretty much ...
When I first heard of this book, the title alone was enough to make me sympathetic to the author’s case. Since gaining steam in the 1970s, the Religious Right has ...
Review of Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford University Press, 2012), ix + 372 pgs. According to the majority of conservative Christians, the ...
(This post concludes the live blogging of Tim Suttle’s book Public Jesus. You can read the other posts here.) Tim Suttle doesn’t like to simplify the complex. While both of ...
Here are some very interesting quotes from Jacques Ellul in the book In Season, Out of Season. (HT Scott B. from the Christarchy Facebook Group.) “The anarchist milieu is the ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the March 1974 issue of The Freeman. The ...
Two weeks ago I wrote an initial post critiquing Joe Carter of the Acton Institute for his ill-conceived criticism of libertarianism, and specifically the idea of libertarianism from a Christian ...
This article is by Lew Rockwell and was originally published in his book Speaking of Liberty. Hardly anyone talks of the table of virtues and vices anymore — which includes ...
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 ...
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. It is the sixth ...
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. It is the fifth ...
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. It is the fourth ...
Recapping and highlighting the interesting news this week. I have been in Auburn, Alabama this week attending the Austrian Scholars Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. What a wonderful ...
Protestant Christians (with the exception of some “emerging church” types) overwhelmingly support free-markets and fiscal prudence on the part of governments. I used to baffle at why more Protestants are ...
Blayne Bennett from Students for Liberty asked me to write a short article describing what it means to be a Christian libertarian, and this piece was the result. What do ...
“Why is it that we see men willing to sacrifice property, the comforts of home, the sweets of the domestic and family relationship, undergo privations and sorrows, suffer hunger, and ...
My good friend Daniel Coleman, who is Catholic and a libertarian, had an interesting email exchange with Dr. Tom Woods about Catholic teaching in tension with libertarian theory. The discussion ...
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