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Ep 211: Progressive Christians are Left-Wing Christian Nationalists

Podcast

Kevin Burr and I discuss my article at LCI entitled ‘Progressive Christian Nationalism’ in which I explain how Christian nationalism and progressive Christianity are structurally identical. Despite wide disagreements regarding ...

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Ep 294: Awake, Not Woke: Noelle Mering Helps You Respond to Progressive Ideology

Christian Worldview

How can Christians love their neighbor (members of family and church) who is falling into the progressive ideology of so-called wokism? Noelle Mering helps you respond to progressive ideology in ...

Ep 286: Living Toward a Decentralist Future, with Max Borders

Podcast

Max Borders, Executive Director of Social Evolution, joins us to talk about how decentralization is the way out of the social mess we’re in, but also how praxis is critical ...

Ep 285: Libertarian Christians at FreedomFest 2022

Podcast

The Libertarian Christian team gathered in Las Vegas for FreedomFest, and hosted a breakout session where FreedomFest attendees and vendors were able to join in a lively discussion about liberty, ...

Ep 284: Religious Freedom in a Secular Age, with Michael Bird

Podcast

We welcomed the Australian, liberty-leaning theologian/scholar Michael F. Bird, to discuss the motivators for writing his new book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age: A Christian Case for Liberty, Equality, and Secular ...

Is America the Last, Best Hope of the World?

American History

The idea that America is the last, best hope of the world is the spirit that animates a great deal of political activity in our country. The “last, best hope” ...

Abstract: The Constitution of Economic Expertise (Salter)

Academic Journal

Title: The Constitute of Economic Expertise: Social Science in the Public Square, Past, and Present Author: Alexander Salter Abstract: Why are the institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? What ...

Ep 91: Analyzing Progressive Christianity with Bill Anderson

Libertarianism

The popularity of the Christian Left has grown in the past decade, and its message is attracting many Christians far and wide. But many are not familiar with some of ...

Ep 90: The Bourgeois Deal with Deirdre McCloskey

Economics

What explains the wealth of the modern age? Was it capital? Institutions? Slave-holding? Why do some countries seem to have an economic advantage over others? Are the fears of progressives ...

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The Christian Posture Toward Others

Libertarianism

It is part of human development that people from every generation must come to terms with and decide what to accept from the faith traditions they inherit from previous generations. ...

Ep 51: Stranger God with Richard Beck

Libertarianism

You don’t have to become a radical Christian to begin changing the world. Our guest, psychologist Richard Beck, has written Stranger God to deal directly with what a Christian is ...

Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views

Book Reviews

Since publishing this review, contributor Jason Jewell joined us for the Libertarian Christian Podcast. Listen to the interview here. If you enjoy reading as much as I do, the stack of ...

Reading Suggestions for a Progressive Friend

Economics

I tend to find myself in the minority among friends with the viewpoints I hold as a libertarian and a Christian. I can frustrate my conservative and progressive friends at ...

Codependency, Christian Love, and Liberty

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 ...

Doug Bandow on Virtue and a Free Society

Media

The Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow, fellow Christian and libertarian, gave an excellent lecture on virtue and the free society back in 1994, and the recording recently came to my attention. ...

Is Progress Possible?

Culture

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book God In the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, subtitled ...

Abortion and the Idolatry of Law

Culture

After Roe v. Wade, something amazing happened.  New organizations, care centers, adoption services, and support networks for pregnant mothers popped up all across the country.  There’s a powerful lesson here ...

Christian Political Life

Book Reviews

(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 ...

Why Government Fails – Public Choice for Everyone

Politics

There are innumerable arguments about the legitimacy and morality of government and its proper scope, all of which are worth exploring.  Public Choice Theory examines an entirely different question than ...

Our Marxist Tax Code

Economics

Originally published at The New American on April 10, 2012. Tax season is winding down once again, but the progressivity of the tax code is still with us. Most Americans ...

Rand Paul may have prevented conflict with Russia, but what does it mean?

Libertarianism

I do not want to overstate the event, but there has been some very interesting stuff going on in the Senate these past few days. Jack Hunter reports in the ...

Wealth: Spread it or Share it?

Christian Ethics

Progressives are often advocating social policies that spread the wealth around. They defend this by explaining that shared wealth is a symptom of a just economic system. The Bible has plenty ...

Thoughts on the word “We”

Christian Worldview

Progressive Christians deride libertarian individualism as contrary to the value system of the Kingdom of God. In their minds, to start with society, rather than the individual, is a morally ...

Tax Slavery Sucks

Libertarianism

This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...

Progressives Against Progress

Economics

“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, ...

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