politics

Weekend Insights – Let speech be free!

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 Reason You Hate Politics

Christian Worldview

I’m prompted to write about this because of a blog post I’ve seen passed around my circles on Facebook. It’s written by John Jalsevac, a journalist and digital marketer turned ...

Weekend Insights – Welcome to 2021

News

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Weekend Insights – The End of 2020

News

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Weekend Insights – What’s a Great Conjunction?

News

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Weekend Insights – RIP Walter Williams and more

News

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Weekend Insights – Think For Yourself and more

News

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

Weekend Insights – Post-Election Conversations

News

First, a few noteworthy items and then some insights from a conversation I recently had… Show I’m watching: The Mandalorian Season 2 is here! BABY YODA IS BACK! ;-) Book ...

The Two American Conservatisms

Culture

“We cannot allow our country to be deprived of the Judeo-Christian values that make it so great.” That is the statement printed on the front of the envelope of a ...

National Debt And The Cost of Low Integrity

Economics

“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” — Matthew 7:5 I grew ...

The Tragedy Of Voting For The “Lesser Of Two Evils”

Christian Worldview

“And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.” — Romans 3:8 In the months leading up to a ...

Introducing “Good News, Bad News”

Libertarianism

We pride ourselves at LCI on providing great “evergreen” content for Christian libertarians across the world. Nonetheless, addressing what is happening in the world right now is important as well, and ...

Elucidating Ellul #3: Statism

Libertarianism

What used to be a utopian view of society, with the state playing the role of the brain, not only has been ideologically accepted in the present time but also ...

Does the Reformed Doctrine of Inerrancy Threaten Christian Libertarians?

Christian Worldview

The Libertarian Christian Institute is an ecumenical Christian organization which brings together Christians from a variety of theological backgrounds. Though our theological differences don’t affect libertarianism, sometimes they intersect it. And when ...

Romans 13 for Dummies

Featured

“It is very biblical to enforce the law.” – Sarah Sanders Romans 13 is in the news, and is being abused by the White House to enforce an unjust law. ...

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 ...

A Little Conserva-tive

Libertarianism

By Albert Jay Nock. Originally published in Atlantic Monthly, October 1936. I often think it’s comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That’s born into ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Want to “Do Something?” Embody the Kingdom of God

Christian Worldview

The subject of the kingdom of God is worth returning to again and again because a biblically-informed understanding of the kingdom emboldens the people of God for Spirit-filled kingdom demonstration. ...

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 ...

Monday Morning Matrix Meme: Voting

Politics

“Have you voted today?” I remember uttering these words when calling up random, local people on the phone hours before the end of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. Somehow I ...

Monday Morning Matrix Meme: Democracy

Politics

Democracy is one of the great gods of Western civilization. “We are part of something providential,” said John McCain in his August 2000 speech in support of George W. Bush. ...

Power Politics in the Name of Love

Politics

Christians in America continue to wrestle with the challenge of how best to engage politically following the corrosive aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election. Some evangelicals spent the first year ...

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 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 ...

Americans Are Quadruple Taxed

Economics

It has often been pointed out that corporate profits are double taxed when a corporation pays income tax on its profit and then shareholders pay income tax on that same ...

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 ...

The Curious Case of Russell Moore

History

Most politically-aware Christians are probably at least somewhat-familiar with the recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention surrounding Russell Moore, who is presently head of the public policy arm of ...

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, ...

The Conservative Christian Lie about Obama and the Military

Politics

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 ...

David Gornoski Interviews Ron Paul

Media

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 ...

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