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Ep 118: Fight the Powers with Cody Cook

Podcast

Cody Cook is a theology graduate student and film buff living in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and family. He’s the host of the Cantus Firmus podcast and is the ...

Ep 85: Promoting Liberty with Larry Reed

Economics

Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education, and has a long history of promoting liberty in the classroom and in think tanks. In this episode he ...

Ep 84: Nullification with Mike Maharrey

Culture

Nullification is the idea that, in these United States, the individual states have the power the supercede and “make null” federal law that goes beyond the powers given to the ...

Was Jesus a Socialist?

Libertarianism

Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use the violence of the state to prosper? I have my ...

Ep 60: Busting Myths about the State with Zack Rofer

Libertarianism

Tired of hearing bad arguments about why the state is good, but need a better way to respond? Author Zack Rofer (pseudonym) has you covered with his free e-book, Busting ...

Ep 52: The OT Case for Non-Violence with Matthew Curtis Fleischer

Hermeneutics

It’s not the Old Testament that a Christian often goes to for their theological defense of non-violence. Our guest, Matthew Curtis Fleischer, believes that the Old Testament not only sets ...

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 ...

Ep 21: Romans 13 and Early Christian Theology of the State

Libertarianism

It’s Independence Day once again, when hundreds of millions of Americans will celebrate a history most of them know very little about. One of the high holy days of what ...

What’s Next For Liberty?

Economics

* Today’s guest post comes from Justin Nguyen, founder and Director of Nguyen Solutions, a Christian libertarian-owned startup currently crowdfunding a campaign to recycle food using the black soldier fly. ...

dying senselessly

Dying Senselessly: Saying What Needs to Be Said About the Military

War and Peace

“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 ...

The Dying and Desperate Left

Culture

The American Left – which never had a sterling record to begin with – is rapidly deteriorating. In one sense it may seem surprising how expediently the Left has turned ...

Do libertarians want to get rid of regulation?

Libertarianism

Recently I received a question via email from a fellow Christian. Editing for clarity, he asked: “Do libertarians want to get rid of regulation? It’s an honest question. This is ...

The Gotthard Tunnel Ceremony Reveals the Aesthetic of Statism

Politics

A friend recently sent me a video to the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland that took place on June 1, 2016. The world’s largest tunnel, it took 17 years ...

Stones Cry Out: How Jesus Ends the State

Culture

This guest post is from Christians For Liberty 2016 Conference speaker David Gornoski, and originally appeared on FEE.org. Warning: The following is an anthropological account of the origins of the ...

Christians and Libertarians on the Tom Woods Show

Announcements

One of my first major influences as a libertarian was Dr. Thomas Woods, through his impressive articles and the lovely book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. When I ...

The Libertarian Priority

Libertarianism

“I am getting more and more convinced that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business.” ~ Murray Rothbard That our enemy is the state, there is ...

The Moral Bankruptcy of Just War Theory

Book Reviews

Review of Robert Emmet Meagher, Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (Cascade Books, 2014), xxi + 161 pgs, paperback. Much has been written about just war theory in ...

Up For Debate – Christian Libertarianism and Al Mohler

Events

Join me for what will undoubtedly be a memorable radio hour of discussing Christianity and libertarianism with esteemed theologian Al Mohler.

Ben Carson the Welfare and Warfare Statist

Politics

It happens every four years. Candidates for president issue books to sucker people to vote for them using the written word just like they sucker people every day to vote ...

Christianity, Libertarianism, and the Drug War

Libertarianism

This talk was given on August 8, 2015 as a keynote address at the Christians for Liberty Conference in Austin, Texas. Stay tuned for videos of the entire event, including ...

The Flat Tax Revisited

Economics

Every four years, during the presidential election season, Republican candidates criticize the abuses of the IRS and the complexity of the tax code. This time is no different. Sometimes Republicans ...

Sniper Theology

Christian Worldview

There came out of the woodwork after George W. Bush’s immoral, unjust, and unnecessary invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq certain groups of Christians—many of whom wear cross and flag ...

The Libertarian Analysis of Obama’s Tax Proposals

Economics

For those of you who did not watch President Obama’s State of the Union address, you can read a transcript here, as I have. I neither watched it nor the ...

Tearing Out Your Eye and Quitting Your Job

Christian Ethics

In this guest post LCC welcomes Matthew Gilliland, libertarian writer and speaker. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law. Jesus presents a considerable challenge to ...

Victory, Defeat, and Learning About Liberty

Libertarianism

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi Many of life’s lessons can be ...

New Testament Theology of the State now in Portuguese

Announcements

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). ...

Pope Francis Says the State Can Solve World Hunger

Economics

Pope Francis addressed the United Nations assembly at a recent conference regarding solutions to world hunger, saying that states across the world should increase their aid efforts and coordinate more ...

25 Reasons I Could Never Be Elected

Libertarianism

Today, being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day. Aside from the fact that I don’t vote, and therefore couldn’t even vote for myself, there are ...

Militarism in American Churches

Christian Worldview

Since the United States launched the unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and senseless war in Iraq in 2003, the Christian blasphemy occurring in churches has increased ten-fold. Even as the many lies ...

C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism

Events

David is the President of both the Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society of California. In this presentation, David speaks of Lewis's views on the state, morality, and the ...

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